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Todays News

GQ Gentlemen’s Quartet to perform Live On Stage

Acclaimed instrumental quartet, GQ, and accomplished guest vocalist Erin Shields will be performing live in concert at Marshalltown Performing Arts Center at Marshalltown High School at 2 p.m. on Jan. 25 as part of Live On Stage Marshalltown’s current performance season. All regular members ...

Looking back on 2025, looking forward to 2026 pt. 2

Amber Danielson, Arts + Culture Alliance Executive Director In 2025, the Arts + Culture Alliance experienced a year of meaningful growth and visible progress, turning long-term vision into action across Marshalltown and Marshall County. Most notably, the opening of the Alliance’s new ...

Supervisors appoint Heil as 2026 chair during brief organizational meeting

Just two days after their final meeting of 2025, the Marshall County Board of Supervisors reconvened for the first time in 2026 on Friday morning for the annual organizational meeting, which was mostly a series of yearly formalities and a change of leadership. After serving as chairman of ...

Car linked to missing Garwin man found in Arkansas

OARK, ARK. — The Johnson County (Arkansas) Sheriff’s Office has recovered an abandoned 2012 Mini Cooper linked to missing 22-year-old Garwin man Nicholas Collins, according to media reports in both Iowa and Arkansas. Collins was last heard from on Dec. 19, when he left a note saying he ...

Dysart man stops for coffee, leaves Kwik Star a ‘millionaire’

DYSART – William “Bill” Zak made what he thought would be a simple stop for coffee and a quick check of his lottery tickets at a gas station in Vinton on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, while on his way to a pheasant hunt. He ended up leaving the store $1,000,004 richer. “I ...

Looking back on 2025, looking forward to 2026 pt. 1

As is now becoming an annual tradition, the T-R recently reached out to a host of local leaders for their reflections on the year that was and their goals for the year to come with 2025 now in the rearview mirror and 2026 on the horizon. The first group of respondents, listed in alphabetical ...