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Tornado Recovery

Team Rubicon helping to clean-up Marshalltown

Earlier this week, a sagging porch roof on a North 4th Street house was getting double the help with volunteers from Team Rubicon and Habitat for Humanity. The crew of men and women, older and younger, worked to remove the sagging roof which made entry into the modest house impossible. The ...

Completely in ruins

Viewing the shell that remains of Goldenland Asian Food Market, it’s amazing that the people inside the building at the time of the tornado not only survived, but were able to exit through the front of the store. Owner/operated Win Kyaw and his staff took shelter in the basement of the ...

Emergency Repair Business applications

TIMES-REPUBLICAN The City Council has made a requirement for businesses offering repairs to homes and businesses due to damage caused by the July 19 tornado, to complete an application and register as an “Emergency Repair Business.” There is no fee. The recently passed Ordinance ...

Catholic Radio of Marshalltown expects return to airwaves

TIMES-REPUBLICAN The sound of silence. Yes, that’s the sound coming from Marshalltown Catholic Radio since the July 19 tornado ravaged their buildings and destroyed much of their equipment. “The roof fell in, literally, in our KCRM studio,” said Deacon Roger Polt, general ...

Credit unions’ members qualify for disaster grants

TIMES-REPUBLICAN Lennox Employees Credit Union and Members 1st Community Credit Union, together are announcing the availability of disaster grants from the Iowa Credit Union Foundation to members of both credit unions who have been displaced from their homes due to the recent tornado and have ...

A walk in the ruins of Marshalltown

Twelve days ago, an EF3 tornado cut a path through the heart of Marshalltown. It took about five minutes to pass through town. In its wake it left ruble from buildings that have been standing for well over a century. Almost 800 buildings were destroyed, damaged or otherwise affected. This ...