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Both Marion Reservoir and Marion County Park and Lake received official all-clears Thursday — no watches, no warnings — regarding toxic blue-green algae.
When Parkside Home’s new CEO, Valerie McGhee, started three months ago, she was not the only one hired for the position.
Her 3-year-old toy Papillion, Gigi, also works at Parkside as a therapy dog.
The 2016 Marion County Fair will offer six days of activities, including an evening of family fun before the official first day July 27.
A ranch rodeo at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the fairgrounds arena will simulate the work of cowboys and cowgirls — team sorting, trailer loading, doctoring, and calf branding.
Great Bend-based Straub International announced Tuesday that it will close its Marion location by the end of the month.
“The local agricultural economy continues to be weak, and we’re just not getting the revenue generation in that location to be able to sustain its operation,” CEO Ron Straub said.
Chief Ben Steketee said he and two other Hillsboro firefighters responded Saturday to a call made by Ginger Hoffner who suspected a cat had run into a home while it was being fumigated.
“One of the people there thought the cat had gotten back in the house,” Steketee said. “I put my breathing apparatus and coat and gloves on, and went in and looked for it, but I never found it.”
Confusion stemming from a request by an individual from Emporia to “sell some wares” from under a tent on a piece in the city prompted city council Tuesday to revise an itinerant permit ordinance.
City administrator Larry Paine suggested that the ordinance be amended because some things have changed, while some still needed to be replaced.
More charges are pending against a Hillsboro teen who was arrested on aggravated assault and multiple drug charges about a month ago.
Clayton Tate Lingenfelter, 18, Hillsboro, is a suspect in an investigation involving criminal damage of a street sign at 1st and Main Sts in Hillsboro.
July may bring unbearable heat, but it also brings competitive heat on tennis courts. Tennis camp for kindergarteners through third graders goes through the end of this week.
Parents Jerred and Kerrie Unruh signed up their son Titus to give him an activity in the summer.
A portion of 190th Rd. next to a bend in the South Cottonwood River has eroded so much from floods the guardrail is falling and the county must now decide what to do about it.
County commissioners, road and bridge superintendent Jesse Hamm, and Larry Cushinberry took a Monday morning tour of the portion of road to check out its condition.
Physical therapist Matt Vermillion at St. Luke Hospital has a new weapon in his aches-and-pains war box.
Vermillion is now certified in dry-needle therapy.
Fishing, camping, hiking and an assortment of other outdoor activities promise summer fun, but also carry risks.
Russell Groves of Hillsboro, a preparedness enthusiast, recommends several precautions before venturing out for a camping trip, hiking day, or the like.
Lutheran churches in Marion and Hillsboro have a full-time pastor after vicar John Werner was recently ordained at ceremony June 10 at Zion Lutheran Church in Hillsboro.
“It was physically, mentally, and spiritually overwhelming,” Werner said. “It feels slightly surreal but I was very thankful to have all my family and so many church members around me.”
The family of Edith Warneke, of Marion, requests a card shower for her 90th birthday Aug. 1. She was born Aug. 1, 1926, to Henry and Pauline (Deines) Albright in Lost Springs. Husband Harlow and daughters Connie, Pat, and Gerry request cards be sent to 701 S. Coble St., Marion KS 66861.
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Eight members of the Hoy family, which has been ranching in the Flint Hills since the 1870s, will share stories of cowboys, cattle, folklore, and education in a community dialogue at 2 p.m. Saturday in a century-old barn at Pioneer Bluffs, located 14 miles south of Cottonwood Falls.
There will be no charge, but donations are suggested.