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MFD responds to three fires over Fourth weekend

It was a long and busy holiday weekend for the Marshalltown Fire Department as firefighters battled three blazes — one on Saturday night and two more on Monday morning — but according to official releases, no injuries have been reported as a result of the incidents. A pellet grill helped to cause the structure fire on the 400 block of Swayze Street late Saturday night, according to Fire Chief David Rierson. When the MFD, Marshalltown Police Department and UnityPoint EMS arrived at the fire site after a call at 10:52 p.m., they saw smoke coming from the garage of a single-story ...

Local model lands magazine cover

Not every shoot is the same for Jillian Hicks. One day, she could be on set for 60 hours filming a Super Bowl commercial, the next she might be modeling below a direly dark sky in the middle of a tornado. Each gig and location has its own story; like a production at a farm that was the ...

Hernandez returns to Marshalltown as new city planner

Marshalltown has recently hired a new city planner — Hector Hernandez — who officially started his job on Monday after interning for the city since late January of this year. Hernandez seized the internship opportunity through communications with Housing and Community Development ...

Batterson retires after 31 years with MPD

When he walks out of the building for the final time as an employee on Thursday, Capt. Brian Batterson will leave the Marshalltown Police Department as its longest tenured officer, with 31 years under his belt and a lifetime’s worth of memories serving the community he has come to call home. ...

Marshalltown receives $4.4 million from FEMA for derecho cleanup

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) announced this earlier this week that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $4.4 million in reimbursement for the city of Marshalltown in the wake of past derecho cleanup efforts. The city has invested approximately $4.9 million in mainly ...

Police propose amendment to pawn dealer ordinance

The Marshalltown Police Department records as many as 170 cases of burglary and 400 cases of theft per year. In an effort to reclaim stolen property, the department has been investigating a new way to track down items sold to pawn shops, consignment stores and other locales in the business of ...