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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Hillsboro has nine lift stations, which collect sewage and pump it to wastewater treatment plants. The industrial lift station on Industrial Rd. between 200th and 190th Rds. will receive a new pump, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A crowd of roughly 8,000 attended the final Symphony of the Flint Hills concert Saturday at Evans Family Ranch in Chase County. It was the 20th anniversary of the popular event. The annual concert ...