HEADLINES

  • New hospital's finances concern physician

    Count Hillsboro physician Michael Reeh as a skeptic when it comes to a proposed $1.5 million city bond issue for construction of privately owned Hillsboro Community Hospital. HCH has secured a $9.7 million loan through the Bank of Hays to build the new hospital, but Reeh is concerned about the risk the city would assume by issuing the bonds to complete the finance package.

  • More issues for city water tower

    Hillsboro City Council again found itself discussing the future of Hillsboro water tower Monday after a call came from the contractor explaining more problems with the top two rings of the water tower. “I’m hoping this is the very last time we have to come back and talk about water tower repair,” city administrator Larry Paine said.

  • McSweeney advocates being friendly to bees

    Debbie McSweeney of Peabody says the honeybee is the proverbial “canary in the coal mine.” “If honeybees are being affected, that’s something to pay attention to,” she said. “Our food is at stake. Without pollinators, there is no food, like fruit. In the 1940s, there were more than four million bee colonies. Now there are less than two million.”

  • County reneges on gravel tax

    At the end of a three-hour work session Friday, commissioners were firmly behind a tax hike to address gravel roads. It took about 20 seconds Monday for that resolve to evaporate.

  • Problems persist for county roads

  • Overdue tax bills rise 5%

    If all the delinquent property tax payers for 2014 paid up tomorrow, the county could fix 42 miles of gravel roads. That’s a lot of gravel.

OTHER HEADLINES

  • Cost is no object when dog's life is at stake

    The bill was more than Danny and Brenda Maddox of Marion ever imagined spending on a dog. Not that they had a choice.

  • Aussies come stateside to claim American icon vehicles

    Australians Ben Pullin and Chloe McConchie have a thing for vintage Airstream trailers. “We love Airstream trailers,” McConchie said. “They’re an American icon. They are rare in Australia. Not many people have them.”

  • Wind can't quash paddleboaters' fun

    Rick LeShure and Brandi Bosley had youth, experience, and training working for them Saturday in the annual paddleboat race at Marion County Park and Lake. It was all for naught. Battered on the outward leg by 15-to-20-mph winds, fighting for control as gusts blew them off course on the way back, the couple tied for last in the four-boat field.

DEATHS

  • Mary Del Vecchio

    Mary Katherine DelVecchio, 60, died Tuesday at her Peabody home. Funeral services are pending at this time.

  • Tom Moore

    Thomas “Tom” Lee Moore, formerly of Peabody, died Aug. 4. Services were held Friday at the Culbertson-Smith Mortuary, Wichita.

  • Cora Sorenson

    Cora B. Sorenson, 60, died Aug. 4 at her home in McPherson. A funeral service was to be today at New Hope Evangelical Church, McPherson. A graveside service was Aug. 5 at McPherson Cemetery.

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Berniece Broadstreet

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Randall Mott-Conyers

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Joe Plume

DOCKET

FARM

  • Woman transitions from suburban Chicago to farm life

    Dawn Suderman of rural Marion grew up in Palos Heights, a suburb of Chicago, but always dreamed about living on a farm. That dream came true when she married Joel Suderman in December 2010. When she was growing up, Dawn and her mother spent a lot of time near her great-uncle’s farm in Indiana, stopping at U-Pick farms for fruit and taking it back home to process. She looked forward to those times.

  • Ag students broaden their horizons in college

    Nicholas Meyer wasn’t surprised by what he learned about agriculture in his freshman year of college. He was surprised at what he learned about possibilities. “There was more to my major, agricultural engineering, than I thought there was,” he said. “I just saw agricultural engineering as the people responsible for designing machines, like combines. I didn’t realize it could also be the person going to third-world countries and designing equipment for them, where their biggest fields don’t compare to our smallest.”

  • FDA to require approval of antibiotics in livestock feed

    By the end of 2016, ranchers and livestock producers will have to follow new rules when medicating stock with commonly used feed-grade antibiotics. In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will begin requiring veterinary feed directive, essentially prescriptions, for livestock feed additives.

OPINION

  • Flies in the ointment

    No matter how positive people feel about something, there’s almost always a naysayer, a fly in the ointment, to spoil things. Hillsboro physician Michael Reeh apparently is this week’s fly. At a time when most of the community is celebrating the advent of a new facility for Hillsboro Community Hospital, Reeh bluntly warns caution, and it seems some folk don’t appreciate the proverbial rain on their parade.

PEOPLE

UPCOMING

  • Calendar of Events

  • Spirit 'n' Celebration to sponsor Farmers Market meal

    Hillsboro High School’s Spirit ‘n’ Celebration will be supplying the meal at Hillsboro Farmers Market from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at a shelter house in Memorial Park. The meal includes taco salad, sides, and desserts.

  • Tabor College to be host for chamber luncheon

    Tabor College will host a Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce luncheon at noon Sept. 8 in the Wohlgemuth Music Education center lobby. Chamber members will receive news about Tabor College and welcome new Tabor employees.

  • Aug. blood drives available

    The American Red Cross will be conducting three more blood drives in the county this month. Aug. 21 — 12 to 6 p.m., Hillsboro City Hall, 118 E. Grand Ave.

  • Rumpshaker Run to be repeated on Labor Day

    Florence Labor Day celebration will again feature the “Rumpshaker at the Nation’s Crossroads” run. Events are a five-kilometer run and one-mile fun run. Registration is $17 for the fun run, $22 for the 5K, or $27 for both. Runners can register at Cottonwood Valley Bank in Florence. Participants can save $5 per run and be guaranteed T-shirt size by registering before Aug. 21.

  • Senior board to meet

    Senior Citizens of Marion County board of directors will meet at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 21 in Burns. Lunch will be served. Reservations are due Aug. 19 and may be made by calling (620) 726-5844 or (620) 382-3580. Anyone needing transportation may call the office by Aug. 20.

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