Marion’s recycling to change hands. By PHYLLIS ZORN. Staff writer. Recycling in Marion likely will soon be done by a contractor instead of the city. Recycling now costs city res ...

A 10-acre plot of land on Old Mill Rd. north of the former county “poor farm” will be sold after county counsel Brad Jantz worked up paperwork to transfer it to the county’s land bank. The land is ...

Party to replace legislator, Hill wins Senate seat in other counties, from Marion County Record for June 18, 2025 ...

How less could become more, Same mill levys could mean much bigger tax bills, from Marion County Record for June 18, 2025 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Kansas Department of Children and Families announced last week that a commodities program that ships free food across Kansas would pause this month because of a lack of federal funding, county ...

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 ...

Rural neighbors’ feud leads to weapons arrest. A rural Peabody man who apparently was in a long-running feud with neighbors was arrested Saturday after going to their house, fir ...

Four routine traffic stops — the type that often result only in warnings — ended in four separate arrests within 28 hours this weekend for Hillsboro officer John Huebert. Going four for four on ...

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 ...

Little information is available on how a Marion couple, Wayne and Barbara Akers, both 75, are doing after a freak accident June 6 while they were pedaling west along US-36 as part of Biking Across ...