REINBECK — Cancer. A word no parent wants to hear. But in 1988, Sharon Hoffmann-Wambold learned her daughter Sarah, age 3 at the time, had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), also called acute lymphocytic leukemia, a type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow. And while Sarah’s disease ...
Times-Republican contributor and former staff writer Sara Jordan-Heintz, is again a recipient of the Artist Innovation Grant sponsored by the Arts + Culture Alliance. As one of six people awarded the grant in 2025, she used her funding to establish The Write Club, which met in person June through November at the Marshalltown Public Library. The group then moved to Zoom only from December 2025 through February 2026. It returns in person March 21 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. in Meeting Room B of the Marshalltown Public Library. Meetings will be held monthly through November. Additional ...
The Olympic-themed event was held March 6,7, 13 and 14 at the Wayward Social in Marshalltown.
A wide variety of businesses, nonprofits, public safety agencies and other service organizations were represented during the Healthy Famllies Fair at the Marshalltown High School (MHS) Roundhouse on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
During last Monday night’s meeting, the Marshalltown City Council briefly discussed a request to vacate West Linn Street east of 12th Street to accommodate the Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) Reimagine Miller project and voted unanimously to move forward with the proposal. Public Works Director Heather Thomas explained that the school district has obtained several nearby properties as part of the project. Some of them are on the east side of 12th Street south and north of the dead end on Linn Street, and Thomas said the city was in favor of honoring the district’s ...
Cities and states are filing lawsuits and scrambling for alternative sources of money as the Trump administration seeks to shut off the federal funding spigot for biking and walking trails. Since the early 1990s, there has been fairly consistent — and largely bipartisan — federal support for bicycle and pedestrian projects. Federal funding for such projects reached new heights during the Biden administration, as major spending measures in 2021 and 2022 included billions in new money for them. But in his efforts to eliminate what he perceives as diversity, equity and inclusion ...
