In the 17 years that she has owned and operated La Salud Restaurant and Grocery Store in downtown Marshalltown, Gabriela Vargas has been open seven days a week, 365 days a year, only closing early occasionally on a few holidays. That changed on Monday. Vargas and a host of other Latino ...
The rate of chronic absenteeism in the Marshalltown Community School District has improved from the last school year. During an update given to the school board at the regular Monday meeting, members were told 28 percent or 1,629 of 5,920 students were chronically absent in the winter of ...
At approximately midnight on Sunday, the Marshalltown Fire Department was dispatched to 119 E. State Street for a structure fire. Upon arrival, a two-story apartment building was found with a working fire in an upstairs apartment. Firefighters threw two ladders to the affected apartment to ...
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig joked more than once during a Friday afternoon stop at Lillie Mae Chocolates on 13th Street that he wanted to make owner Aimee Deimerly-Snyder an ambassador for the state’s “Choose Iowa” program for products grown, raised and made in the state. ...
Marshall County Courthouse Court Feb. 3 • Joshua Charles Patterson made an initial appearance on an escape from custody charge. Jennifer Weaver is appointed as counsel. The preliminary hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 13. Patterson is being held without bond. • Mir Ahmad Ahmadi ...
GRUNDY CENTER – South Porch Cider Co. officially opened its doors on Friday night in downtown Grundy Center. The orchard-based artisanal cidery, located at 625 G Avenue in Grundy Center in the former Hallmark “As You Like It” building, offers a selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic ...