In an effort to identify and meet healthcare needs of the community, Marshall County residents are asked to participate in the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) survey. Marshall County Public Health Director Sydney Grewell hopes as many people as possible will participate. “The ...
A Tama man who attacked his girlfriend was sentenced to a little over two years in federal prison on Thursday. Roeles Reyes Cavazos, age 29, of Tama received the prison term after a March 29, 2024, guilty plea to domestic abuse assault. Evidence at the plea hearing and sentencing showed ...
As a young child, Maria Gonzalez-Alvarez came to the U.S. from Michoacan, Mexico, first landing in California and later settling in Marshalltown. Gonzalez-Alvarez, her mother and her brother were undocumented, a situation that grew dire in 2006. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ...
CONRAD — About a year after a controversial bond referendum failed at the polls, BCLUW Superintendent Ben Petty and the board of education are moving forward with a smaller scale project that will improve the current elementary and high school buildings in Conrad while still ultimately ...
TOLEDO — Retired South Tama County teacher Denise Fletcher has a simple motto when it comes to volunteer projects within the adjoining communities she calls home — if you want it, you’ve got to do it. Fletcher was one of several volunteers, many of them fellow school district retirees, ...
The Marshalltown man accused of illegally voting in the July 16 special city council election has formally pleaded not guilty to two charges of first-degree election misconduct. Jorge Oscar Sanchez Vasquez’s attorney, Billy Mallory of Urbandale, submitted a written initial appearance ...