A Mad Science program is planned for 10 a.m. June 18 at Marion Community Center. The interactive program, sponsored by Marion City Library., will be a free program for all ages. More information is ...

Cade Gossen, a member of the Peabody-Burns FFA chapter, and Natalee Bray, retiring State Sentinel from Pike Valley, were honored. The scholarships were established in 2025 in the name of the late ...

Overall, Marion County’s score was better than Lyon County’s 58%, Sedgwick County’s 64%, Saline County’s 65%, Reno County’s 66%, Chase County’s 74%, Butler County’s 80%, Dickinson County’s 84%, and ...

A million here, a million there. Pretty soon it adds up to real money. With apologies for scaling Everett Dirksen’s apocryphal quip to a local level, it’s a saying we all might do well to ponder, ...

But despite periods of truancy, Shobe enjoyed school. He graduated with a degree in physical science and eventually got his master’s in geology. Shobe even taught high school and college science after ...

Centre FFA member Emilee Remmers won first place in Diversified Horticulture Proficiency at the Kansas FFA convention May 28 to 30. She will receive a plaque and compete at the national FFA convention ...

Mass of Christian Burial for Catherine Louise (Bishop) Whitaker, 65, who died Friday, May 30, at her home in Marion, will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 5, at Holy Family Parish in Marion.

The bullet that penetrated Robbins’ house reportedly ricocheted off a kitchen cabinet and lodged in a wall above a sleeping baby. Another Peabody resident replied that her son had notified the sheriff ...

Durham, population 92, doesn’t have much, but it does have perhaps the best coffee shop in the county: Main St. Café. Run by a large Mennonite family, the restaurant has a friendly staff, and its ...

Road Side Ranch Design, which offers clothes for men, women, and babies along with artistic shoes, caps, candles, cups, vanity license plates, placemats, kitchen towels, hair brushes, backpacks, ...

Marion County attorney Michelle Brown said she might file a motion seeking to try Williams as an adult in the juvenile cases. Under the rules of juvenile court, if he is tried as an adult, it would be ...

After retiring, Ogden and Dennis Maggard opened one of the county’s most unique businesses, Bearly Makin’ It Antiques, in 1994. The business’s Main St. storefront closed in 2022, but its iconic ...