A bold goal has been set by the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber wants to grow Marshalltown’s population from roughly 27,000 to between 50,000 and to 70,000 by December 2030, while also cutting Marshalltown’s commuter rate of 22 percent in half by 2024. Joe ...
As work continues on the Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center (MACC), formerly known as the Fisher Community Center, efforts are ongoing to raise funds for the $6 million project. Karn Gregoire, the project coordinator and member of the Fisher Governor Board of Trustees, said a capital ...
A long road of planning is in the rearview and the city is at the doorstep of decision time for the Downtown Implementation Plan. Consulting firm Bolton and Menk and city staff have conducted community surveys, held discussions on the plan and researched seemingly every facet of work that ...
Going into the Marshall County Courthouse, the sounds of construction work can be heard, people can be seen doing a variety of tasks and dust and construction dirt covers most surfaces. After three years, the project to renovate the courthouse is ongoing. Outside, the scaffolding is ...
In 2019, if you would have told Geoff Hubbard $1.36 million could be raised to renovate the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, he would have been pretty skeptical. Fast forward to today and the Parks and Recreation Director looks at the donor wall of the Coliseum in awe. After the tornado ...
Vaccines for the COVID-19 virus became available on a limited basis toward the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. And Marshall County was in line to get shipments so residents could be inoculated. Waiting in that line and leading the way was Marshall County Public Health Nurse Pat Thompson. ...
