As many of the county elected officials and employees had been up late the night before waiting on and/or tabulating results from Tuesday’s midterms, Wednesday morning’s Board of Supervisors meeting was a quick one, clocking in at around 25 minutes before a closed session at the tail ...
T-R PHOTOS BY LANA BRADSTREAM AND ROBERT MAHARRY
A local bank on a prominent downtown corner will be moving and opening for business at its new address at 9 a.m. on Nov. 16. First Interstate Bank (FIB), 11 N. 1st Ave. announced recently via a corporate press release that it will move to the former Wells Fargo bank building also downtown, ...
Incumbent Republican Brett Barker has held onto his District 51 seat in the Iowa House of Representatives. In Tuesday’s election, Barker earned 8,617 votes, or 55 percent, of 15,549 total ballots and Democrat Teresa Perin drew 6,901 votes, or 44 percent. There were 31 write-ins. District 51 covers the northwest, southwest and northeast quadrants of Marshall County — including communities of Green Mountain, Albion, Liscomb, St. Anthony, Clemons, Rhodes, Melbourne and State Center — along with a large swath of Story County outside of Ames. Within Marshall County, Barker earned ...
Marshall County voters are sending Democrat Mike Tupper of Marshalltown to the state legislature next year as the new District 52 representative. With 5,816 votes, or 55 percent of the 10,655 total ballots, he beat incumbent Republican David Blom of Marshalltown, who garnered 4,831, or 45 percent. There were eight write-ins. Blom did not respond to the T-R before this issue went to print, but on Tuesday night, he issued a statement on his Facebook page. "Tonight’s election results were not what we had hoped for, but I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have served the ...
For about the last year, The Hobby Craft Club at the Marshalltown YMCA/YWCA, which has met weekly on Tuesdays for decades, has been sewing hundreds of fabric hearts to be sent to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Blank Children’s Hospital and the Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines ...
