Nearly every editorial Susan wrote ended with a plea for readers to become more engaged with their community — as donors, volunteers, voters, even candidates for office. To her, citizenship meant ...

County commissions met behind closed doors Monday in what almost certainly was a violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act. The Marion County Record has filed a formal complaint with the Kansas ...

Students swam at the Sports and Aquatics Center pool, played in its splash pad, and dived off the diving board as parents kept an eye on the activity and visited with one another on pool bleachers ...

The novel is historical fiction in which a German soldier is captured in Tunisia and sent to a POW camp in Peabody. There, he meets a Mennonite family living next to Doyle Creek and falls in love with ...

Lehigh, Hillsboro, Durham, and Goessel firefighters spent 3½ hours early Saturday battling a blaze that destroyed an unoccupied Lehigh house. Hillsboro, Durham, and Goessel firefighters were released ...

Paying for classroom supplies out of pocket is common for schoolteachers. The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the U.S., reported in 2022 that more than 90% of teachers ...

Inside Marion’s water plant. By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. Built in 1964, Marion’s odd-looking water plant is still going strong. Blocky, made of large brick ...

The survey began July 17, 1825, near Fort Osage (Sibley), Missouri. The survey party passed westward through Marion County 200 years ago this week, Aug. 11 to 14, 1825. Leaving Diamond Spring, the ...

Bennett was born March 29, 1963, in Marion to Lester and Mayme (Swelha) Franta. He graduated from Circle High School in Towanda with the class of ’82 and took some college courses at Butler Community ...

Veterinarian Brendan Kraus, who installed a solar array at his Spur Ridge Vet Hospital, had a 2014 agreement with the city that the city would pay him its retail rate to buy his system’s excess energy ...

A Hillsboro man was so badly injured Saturday in an accident on Indigo Rd. that he was airlifted to a Wichita hospital. Lloyd Funk, 89, was driving northbound on Indigo Rd. when he attempted to turn ...

These deeds were reported last week as recorded by the register of deeds. Property addresses come from appraisal records. Agricultural property descriptions use common road references derived from ...