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 ...

Services for Stephen “Steve” James Podszus, 76, Lincolnville, who died Thursday at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, are pending. Born in 1947 in McAllen, Texas, to Fred and Viola Podszus, his family ...

Last week, as temperatures around the county plummeted, Marion High School principal Donald Raymer compared the temperature in the Hill School to that of a refrigerator. Raymer visited the building ...

Obsolescence plagues most anyone older than 65. Progress, change, and invention are constant while time moves ever forward. I’m sure that any of you reading this column can remember items from your ...

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 ...

These Marion County students were listed this past week as receiving degrees or honors from colleges or universities. Grade-point averages of 4.00 indicate all A’s; 3.00 indicate all B’s.

Free food will be distributed to residents with low incomes the week of Feb. 16. New rules require that recipients have monthly household income of no more than $2,322 plus $830 for each household ...