Students at Lenihan Intermediate are seeing if they have or can develop musical skills. On Thursday, the fifth graders “tried out” for musical instruction. Some of them had their first encounters with the instruments such as flutes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones and tubas. Fifth ...
Iowa Environmental Council’s annual “condition of the state” report on Iowa’s electric generation shows that while wind continues to dominate Iowa’s electricity generation sources, there has been a “reversal” in the state’s progress to meet energy demand with renewable sources. ...
Marshall County Conservation Board (MCCB), headquartered at Grimes Farm, manages more than 3,000 acres including 37 areas (parks, river accesses and wildlife spaces) and three trails. Free and low-cost activities abound for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages. “We’re getting into monarch ...
Rogers Elementary School kindergarten teachers Courtney Arp and Megan Cutright are both in their 15th years as educators, and neither of them have ever experienced anything like their current situation at the start of the 2026-2027 school year: three sets of identical twins in the same class. ...
Marshall County Courthouse Court Sept. 2 • Allen Jerome Williamson made an initial appearance on four counts of a theft-third degree charge. The public defender’s office is appointed as counsel. The preliminary hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 14. Bond is set at $2,000 cash in defendant’s name only. • Michael Thomas Rowley made an initial appearance on a lascivious acts-to touch genitals to any part of a child’s body charge, a lascivious acts with a child-fondle or touch and four counts of an indecent contact with a child charge. The public defender’s office is ...
The Marshalltown Area United Way (MAUW) campaign already had a good head start before Tuesday’s annual kickoff. New MAUW Executive Director Debbie Collins said this year’s goal is $900,000 and gave a brief report of how much fundraisers have raised. The first duck race brought in ...
