Editor’s Note: This is the first of six articles appearing daily featuring four historic homes in Marshalltown and two in State Center included in the Historical Society of Marshall County’s (HSMC) Historical Home Tour — a fundraising initiative. The article below features the Jennifer ...
One of the renowned Greek storyteller Aesop’s 725 fables was called “The Donkey and His Purchaser.” In summation a man wished to purchase a donkey and decided to give the animal a trial to see how the donkey would fit in with his herd. He took the donkey home and put him in the field ...
A Marshalltown man has been charged with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting outside of the Center Street Station early Saturday morning and is considered armed and dangerous. On Saturday at 1:20 a.m. first responders were sent to the Center Street Station bar, ...
After several discussions among the Planning and Zoning Commission and the passage of a moratorium on new ground solar arrays at the previous meeting, the Marshalltown city council went one step further in codifying a more restrictive set of rules on Tuesday night, voting unanimously on the ...
New City Church Marshalltown will hold its first service at 10 a.m. May 5 at the former Center Street Baptist Church located at 1202 S. Center St. The transition has been two years in the making, and as Lead Pastor Angie Juergens put it, God works in surprising ways. “Center Street had heard ...
The No. 1 argument climate-change deniers use to “prove” that global warming is not happening is the fact that there have numerous examples of historically low winter temperatures in the United States in recent years. How can our planet be warming if the winter temperatures are falling? ...