By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. Monday was a busy day at the Hillsboro water plant. A hot, windless weekend had created an algae ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In a dispute stemming from Marion withholding incriminating open records, a judge awarded more than $75,000 Thursday to the District Judge Ben Sexton had ruled April 4 that the city acted in “bad ...

Four routine traffic stops — the type that often result only in warnings — ended in four separate arrests within 28 hours this weekend for Hillsboro officer John Huebert. Going four for four on ...

Historic bricks in the 100 block of Elm St. were gently re-laid last week as part of reconstruction of curbs and guttering and replacement of a too-small drain pipe that leads to Luta Creek. The ...