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 ...

But defendant contends she didn’t agree. By PHYLLIS ZORN. Staff writer. A felony charge of child abuse was reduced Thursday to misdemeanor battery, bu ...

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 ...

Services will be scheduled later for Durham native Thomas R. Krotz, 72, who died Jan. 4 at his home in Newton. Born July 12, 1952, in Wichita to Frank and Petrona (Rudolph) Krotz, he graduated from ...

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.

Popularity is not always a bad thing. Alumni often go on to use their popularity in school to help others and advance their own lives. The idea of homecoming is a lovely thing and remains such in most ...

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 ...

Talking on a cell phone, texting, or just taking your eyes off the road while driving are considered distracted driving, and all can have serious consequences. Kansas Department of Transportation data ...

If those senators stop backing WRAPS, it could lead to ecological paradise for algae and disaster for the water quality in Marion Reservoir. But if the money keeps flowing in, algae blooms may soon ...

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

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 ...