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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...