Truth be told, I found my first 18 years in Marion to be quite pleasant. I loved that I could spend lots of time with family members, including two grandmothers who, rare for that time, were ...

Marion, Hillsboro, and Peabody all receive their drinking water from the reservoir, but treatment procedures are designed to eliminate threats from algae. A watch indicates that a harmful bloom is ...

Services for Viola Hiebert, 97, Newton, who died May 28 at Schowalter Villa in Hesston, will be in July. A graveside service was May 31 in Ebenfeld cemetery, rural Hillsboro. Born Nov. 17, 1927, in ...

Marion city attorney Brian Bina, who has offices in Marion and McPherson, was appointed Friday to a four-year term on the state Board for Discipline of Attorneys. The board, 20 attorneys appointed by ...

Services for Roger Frank Peterson, 92, Burdick, who died June 2 at Legacy Nursing Home, were June 8. Born Dec. 11, 1932, to Iver and Stella Hanson Peterson, he served in the U.S. Army during the ...

In a dispute stemming from Marion withholding incriminating open records, a judge awarded more than $75,000 Thursday to the Marion County Record’s lawyer. District Judge Ben Sexton had ruled April 4 ...

It’s humid inside; the clarifier resembles both a nuclear reactor and a circus tent. The white noise of generators is loud and overwhelming. Employees stick long, clear rods into the water to measure ...

Hillsboro’s senior center serves the most meals at its site, an average of 1,971 meals a month. Marion’s senior center provides friendship meals to an average of 514 seniors a month, pickup meals to ...

A farmhouse at 2267 Clover Rd. was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning after apparently being struck by lightning. The 1,458 square foot house, appraised at $73,000, was owned by Brenda Soyez, who ...

TC’s What-Not Shop is impossible to miss. Its bright-green facade, speckled with metallic lawn décor and fiery novelty signs (“Keep Calm and Return Fire”; “God is Great, Beer is Good, and People are ...

Hillsboro has nine lift stations, which collect sewage and pump it to wastewater treatment plants. The industrial lift station on Industrial Rd. between 200th and 190th Rds. will receive a new pump, ...

Historic bricks in the 100 block of Elm St. were gently re-laid last week as part of reconstruction of curbs and guttering and replacement of a too-small drain pipe that leads to Luta Creek. The ...