Alright, Marshalltown — brace yourselves, because Main Street Reconstruction is on the way for Summer 2025. Yes, there will be orange cones, detours, and probably a bit of dust in your morning coffee. But before we all start grumbling, let’s take a deep breath and look at the bigger ...

High-quality schools play a vital role in fostering passion, purpose, and pride within a community. The Marshalltown Community School District has done a remarkable job maintaining our schools and being responsible stewards of community tax dollars. With an average age of 67.5 years, our ...

It’s that time of year again where airwaves are filled with political ads, mailboxes are stuffed with mailers, and everyone is monitoring who is calling them a bit more carefully, making sure they don’t get trapped on a phone call about who they are voting for. And while we all look forward ...

In the spring of 1999, young people across the country began to prepare for that singular teenage right of passage: prom. For Diamond Stylz, this time included not just finding the right dress and corsage but fighting for her right to attend prom at all. School administrators had told the ...

The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Both Ken Madden and his son Sean, of rural Crawfordsville, graduated from the University of Iowa, and both participated in ROTC—Reserve Officer Training Corps. In 2002, Colonel Ken Madden had the honor of commissioning his son Sean, upon ...

Both major presidential candidates have called for eliminating taxes on tips. But that won’t help most restaurant workers. What will? Replacing the subminimum wages that tipped workers make with one fair wage nationwide. The federal minimum wage for most workers is just $7.25. But for ...