At the request of city staff who wish to establish an employee wellness program, the city council discussed the matter during Monday night’s meeting and seemed to reach a consensus with unanimous support for the idea. City Administrator Carol Webb said such programs are common among ...
Michael J. Welsh, MD, University of Iowa professor of internal medicine, has won the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his fundamental research on cystic fibrosis (CF), which paved the way to new therapies that have transformed the health and life expectancy of people with ...
Thursday marked the 24th anniversary of one of the darkest moments in American history, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 that claimed nearly 3,000 innocent lives in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. At the Police/Fire building on Thursday morning, Fire Chief Christopher ...
Since its initial launch with funding from the city council at the beginning of 2021, the Marshalltown Police and Community Team — better known by the acronym MPACT — has enjoyed widespread approval and support among both law enforcement officers and the general public. Now, the ...
The Marshalltown Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has an “explosive” rate of infection. Former New York City Health Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Sciences & Engineering Chris Boyd became aware of the outbreak last week. He estimated that the Marshalltown infection rate is ...
Almost six months after terminating a $2 million development agreement with Huegerich Construction Company for the construction of townhouse units as part of a Community Development Block Grant for Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) through the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA), the ...