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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Des Moines Register, Gannett Company |
| Editor | Adam Wilson |
| Founded | 1890 (as The Altoona Rustler) |
| Headquarters | 715 Locust Street Des Moines, Iowa 50309  United States |
| Circulation | 1,324 [1] |
| Website | altoonaherald |
The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index is the weekly newspaper of Altoona, Iowa and the surrounding area.
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Iowa Highway 330 is a 47-mile-long (76 km) state highway that travels northeasterly from Altoona past Albion, to just north of Marshalltown in Marshall County. Originally the two-lane, unpaved road was numbered Iowa 88. It became part of Iowa 64 in the 1903s and it received its current route number in 1969. Iowa 330 is mostly a four-lane, divided expressway along much of its length. In conjunction with U.S. Route 65 (US 65), Iowa 14 and US 20, Iowa 330 is commonly used as a connector between Des Moines and the Waterloo–Cedar Falls area.
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The 30th District of the Iowa House of Representatives is located in the eastern portion of Polk County in the state of Iowa. It contains the cities of Altoona, Bondurant, Mitchellville, Elkhart and Runnells.
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