Marshalltown High School students like junior Luke Stalzer got a taste of life on the road through a trucking simulator set up outside of the Roundhouse on Tuesday afternoon and sponsored by the Iowa Motor Truck Association (IMTA). Stalzer and his friend Gavin Freiberg said they are both ...
Since June 2025, The Write Club, a group for established and aspiring writers, teens through adults, has met monthly for a mix of discussion, sharing writing samples, camaraderie and a lecture on a particular writing topic. Made possible through funding from the Artist Innovation Grant awarded by the Arts & Culture Alliance, the group is led and organized by journalist/author Sara Jordan-Heintz. Free and open to the public, it will meet next from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, May 16 at the Marshalltown Public Library, Meeting Room B. The topic for this month’s meeting is ...
After three items related to the implementation of a three percent gas and electric franchise fee were pulled from the consent agenda during Monday night’s meeting, the Marshalltown city council ultimately voted all of them down by 4-3 tallies, grinding the current process of adopting the ...
Some positive animal legislation became law on Monday. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill making animal torture a felony, and Animal Rescue League of Marshalltown Executive Director Austin Gillis and his wife Jodi were present for the signing. During the last Iowa Legislature session, which ...
Editor’s note: It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. Through ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a highly anticipated stay blocking an appellate court’s pause on telehealth abortion access until May 14. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approved medication-abortion regimen remains available via telehealth until then, following a week of uncertainty among abortion patients and providers. “With this critical temporary administrative stay extended, we hope that some of the chaos and confusion inflicted on patients and providers last weekend will be abated,” said Evan Masingill, CEO of abortion-pill manufacturer GenBioPro, one ...
