By PHYLLIS ZORN. Staff writer. An around-the-lake fun run March 15 to raise money for Youth Core Ministries was approved Monday by county commissioners.

Survivors include daughters Deborah Tomczak of Duisburg, Germany, and Rebecca Podszus of Olympia, Washington; and, brother Rod Podszus of Hartland, Wisconsin. Yagel-Megli Funeral Home, Marion, is in ...

New boiler could warm 40° classrooms. By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. Last week, as temperatures around the county plummeted, Marion High School principal Donald Raymer compared ...

The inexperience of Centre is not unique in the county, as public school enrollment in rural Kansas has declined in lockstep with the general population. Goessel’s boys team, for example, graduated ...

Peabody mayor Catherine Weems spoke longingly at a city council meeting Monday night about hiring a city administrator.

A former county ambulance director under investigation when he resigned in August, 2023, lost his license Dec. 31.

Iris’ life began Feb. 6, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri. Her parents were Edward and Cora Mae (Ward) Raffety. Iris attended school in Springfield and on Aug. 30, 1941, she was united in marriage to ...

An offense report released by the sheriff’s office reported theft from former Peabody resident Amy Stutzman’s burned-down rural residence near 110th and Pawnee Rds., but the offense report and ...

A felony charge of child abuse was reduced Thursday to misdemeanor battery, but the defendant contends she didn’t agree to the deal. Defendant Amy D. Stutzman, 51, formerly of Peabody, now living in ...

A team of four, including two volunteers, worked Sunday and Monday on S. Buller to repair damage to a broken water main which prompted a boil order in Goessel. A water pipe burst at 9:30 a.m. Sunday ...

Services for Edmund Grothe, 89, who died Jan. 2 at Salem Home in Hillsboro, were Saturday. Interment was at Zion Lutheran Cemetery. Born Oct. 15, 1935, in Wichita to Edmund and Ruby (Hannaman) Grothe, ...

Agree or disagree, it’s a valid point. Taxpayers footed the bill for the showers not to create a public bathhouse but to support camping. The problem is, the argument came to focus on whether people ...