Senior volunteers often work under the radar in Marion, but their work is vital to the community. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Marion County Food Bank, where roughly 60 volunteers, almost all ...

Just a year after his hiring, county ambulance director Chuck Kenney resigned Monday, citing only personal reasons. Kenney is the fourth ambulance director to quit in recent years. Curt Hasart, under ...

The Centre and Herington school districts have agreed to establish a joint baseball and softball program. Neither district have had such baseball or softball programs in the past. The agreement will ...

A graveside service at Hillcrest Cemetery, Florence, for Robert “Bob” Harris, 84, who died Monday at St. Luke Hospital in Marion, will follow visitation from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday at Florence Christian ...

Overland Park lawyer David Graham filed his affidavit of write-in candidacy for Marion County attorney Thursday. Graham has practiced law since 1985. He has worked as a prosecutor in Neosho, Harper, ...

Festivities began early during Pilsen’s 150th anniversary Saturday. Gunshots and traditional Czech polkas began ringing out at 8 a.m., as youths and adults shot skeet. Thurston Silhan, a freshman at ...

A new survey shows most Kansans believe former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody should be prosecuted for raiding a newspaper office, editor’s home and city councilwoman’s home last year. When asked to ...

Hillsboro built its existing concrete hiking and biking trail with an 80% grant from the same program. The new grant will pay 80% of the cost of the trail extension. Completed in 2021, the original ...

Peabody is a third-class city. State law imposes no residency requirement on appointed officers of third-class cities. Under state law, second-class cities like Marion, Hillsboro, and Florence are ...

It’s not that journalists — real ones, not “talking heads” — have agendas they want the public to follow. They’re humans. They have opinions. But they see their mission not as persuading but informing ...

Food, toys, and cash donations for underprivileged kids will be collected Nov. 2 at Marion County’s 31st annual Toy Run. Participants in the drive from Marion to Hillsboro, sponsored by Sons of the ...

The Lady Warriors completed their golf season at Monday’s 1-2-3A regional in Osage City. Georgia Madgwick, Naomi Wilson, and Sybil Bowman led the team.