HEADLINES

  • Council pores over financing

    Hillsboro city council, with street and water system projects on their to-do-list, discussed finding financing to move forward at Tuesday’s meeting. The council decided weeks ago that water system upgrades are a high priority. The cost to replace deteriorating water lines ranges from $3.1 million to $4.7 million, depending on how much work is done at one time, city administrator Larry Paine said.

  • End in sight for jail tax?

    The county’s half-cent sales tax that raises half a million dollars a year can pay off the jail bonds five years early, but commissioners talked through options Thursday for keeping the tax on the books. The county needs about $2.2 million to pay off the bonds and currently has about $1.9 million in the bank, according David Arteberry, an adviser and underwriter on bond issues from George K. Baum & Company.

  • Counties offer EMS options

    After increasing the EMS budget for 2018 by 42 percent over 2017, Marion County residents could end up paying more for ambulance service than 11 Kansas counties closest in population. And that’s after commissioners took another look at the budget and slashed about $165,000 from personnel, intended to come from about $248,000 in overtime pay Information on 2017 budgets, derived from Kansas Department of Revenue, for Allen, Bourbon, Brown, Cloud, Jackson, Linn, Marion, Marshall, Nemaha, Osage, Pratt, and Rice counties, was provided to the newspaper by Randy Collett and Anthony Roy, economic development directors for Marion and Hillsboro.

  • Marion man charged with June indecent liberties

    A Marion man was arrested Thursday on charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. According to Marion Assistant Chief Clinton Jeffrey, the victim was under 14 at the time of the June incident.

OTHER HEADLINES

  • Fill the bus: Future taco truck taking a Texas detour

    A former school bus, or better yet a soon-to-be taco truck, is taking an extended detour from Hillsboro to Austin, Texas, to transport supplies to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. “It’s a future taco truck, but right now this is more important,” Angie Zaragoza said. She and her husband Paulo Zaragoza own the school bus and left Tuesday to take supplies they collected from residents in Hillsboro and the surrounding area.

  • A long way from dolls to a depot

    Bob Gerety’s interest in antiques started innocently enough, just looking out for dolls for a co-worker. Three decades later, the Peabody man is literally moving into the big time by relocating an old Lehigh depot that’s languished in a Walton neighborhood to a prime location nearby on US-50.

  • County considers contracting road repair

    The county’s road and bridge crews may contract out maintenance work next summer, even if contractors are more expensive than doing the work themselves. Jesse Hamm, road and bridge supervisor, told commissioners Thursday that Circle C Paving of Goddard approached him earlier this year offering to do contract work for 43 miles of chip seal. They would have charged $80,000 for the work if the county bought the material and oil.

  • Dog complaints common in Hillsboro

    Dogs running loose and dogs barking a little too much or a bit too loudly are complaints common to Hillsboro police officers. “We’re receiving dog complaints all the time,” Hillsboro police chief Dan Kinning said in response to four dog complaints his department assisted with last week.

DEATHS

  • Mary Ann Biehler

    Graveside services for Mary Ann Biehler, 80, of McPherson, who died Aug. 29 at McPherson Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. today at St. John Nepomucene Cemetery, Pilsen. A burial mass was held this morning at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, McPherson. Born March 5, 1937, to Harry R. and Irene Mary (Belton) Miller in Durham, she graduated from Lincolnville High School in 1955. She attended Hutchinson Community College and graduated from Friends University, Wichita. She and Duane Biehler were married May 18, 1957.

  • Frieda Birkle

    Services for Frieda Birkle, 95, of Hillsboro, who died Thursday at Salem Home, were Tuesday at First Mennonite Church, Hillsboro. Interment was at Lehigh Mennonite Cemetery. Born Jan. 19, 1922, to George and Hattie (Guhr) Martens in Lehigh, she married Jake Birkle on Dec. 13, 1941, in Lehigh.

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Jesse Branson, Sylvia Unger
  • FUNERAL NOTICES:

    Felna Crawford

DOCKET

FARM

  • Horses have unique personalities

    Sabrina Shields of Lincolnville enjoys riding horses. She said she doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t have a horse. She likes everything about horses and is intrigued by their unique personalities. “I’ve been bucked off five times, kicked, stepped on, and bit,” she said. “When that happens, it just makes me more determined.”

  • Transition into fall gardening

    As summer winds down and as the last vegetables in summer gardens are picked, it is an ideal time to transition into fall gardening, which Serenity Gardens owner Jana Dalke considers the best time of year to garden. “It’s just time,” Dalke said. “It’s time to clean up and spruce up. Once that hottest part of the season is over, it’s time. It’s best to get into the garden as soon as you can to get it as well established as you can before winter hits.”

  • Brothers return to family farm, start businesses

    When the Hajek brothers were growing up on the farm west of Lost Springs, they helped their father, Ron, do fieldwork and feed cattle. Part of the work was chopping corn and forage to fill the trench silo for winter feeding. Little did they know that they would end up doing it in partnership as their life’s work. At first, they used a two-row chopper pulled by a tractor and fed into a silage wagon. It was tedious work, taking a week or more. Then they purchased a three-row self-propelled chopper, and the boys thought they were in heaven.

  • County 4-Hers are off to state fair

    Numerous area 4-Hers are planning to take projects to the Kansas State Fair. Brooke Nafziger, an 8-year member of Goessel Goal Getters 4-H, will take her self-portrait drawing that won grand champion at the county fair and a dress she sewed that also took honors.

OPINION

  • Decisions have not been made?

    If you haven’t yet done so, we encourage you to read the letter from Gloria Ash printed elsewhere on this page. Some will undoubtedly nod heads in agreement as she sternly takes us to task for last week’s article and commentary in which we publically used former Marion officer Lee Vogel’s name for the first time since June’s tragic shooting death of Robb Stewart of Lehigh.

  • ANOTHER DAY IN THE COUNTRY:

    It's An Emergency
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

    Wrong on Vogel

PEOPLE

  • From accidents to malaria: ER doctor headed to Uganda

    A Marion emergency room physician will spend two weeks treating patients with malaria, head and back pain, injuries, and the like when he goes to Uganda with Medical Missions Foundation. This month Don Hodson will make his fourth trip to Uganda to work in a medical clinic outside the city of Gulu in northern Uganda.

  • Muzzleloaders hold rendezvous at Florence

    A three-day event at Florence during Labor Day weekend took participants and onlookers back to frontier days. Flint Hills Muzzleloaders Club was formed in the 1970s by people who love spending time living the pioneer lifestyle and shooting the types of guns pioneers used. In the mid-1980s, the club moved its gathering place to Florence, club treasurer and former president Lynn Schmidt of Marion said.

  • Senior center menu

  • NORTHWEST OF DURHAM:

    Idahoans visit Unruhs

SPORTS AND SCHOOLS

  • Trojans thunder past Lions

    Already with a dose of rain earlier in the day, the threat of another storm loomed over Friday night’s football season opener between the visiting Hillsboro Trojans and the Lyons Lions. The storm that would eventually cancel the game at halftime was eclipsed by the Trojans.

  • Goessel volleyball cruises to 3-0 start

    The Goessel volleyball team coasted through an easy victory against Ell-Saline on Sept. 5, winning 25-9, 25-9. Against Haven, the Bluebirds prevailed 25-20, 25-16. Hitting hard and serving aggressively, Goessel defeated Herington 25-7, 25-16 to start the season 3-0. Following a dual match Tuesday at Peabody, the Bluebirds come home Saturday for the Goessel Varsity Invitational Tournament. Their only home league contests of the season are Tuesday against Canton-Galva and Elyria Christian.

  • Goessel scores 20 in Wakefield loss

    The Goessel football team lost to Wakefield 68-20 on Friday. The first quarter was lopsided in Wakefield’s favor, as Goessel trailed 32-0 at the end of the period.

  • Goessel cross-country opens with two medalists

    The Goessel girls’ cross-country team won a meet Thursday at Pretty Prairie Golf Course. Elyse Boden led the Bluebirds with a seventh place medal, finishing the 5-kilometer race in 19 minutes, 38 seconds. Julia Nightengale was right behind her in eighth at 19:45. Adding to the success of the varsity team was Porclein Unruh, 21:05, Maddy Meier, 21:41, and Edel Miller, 22:51.

  • Back-to-school carnival raises money for a 'maker space'

    Activities including a dunk tank, face painting, and a barrel train helped raise almost $6,000 for Hillsboro Elementary School during the school’s back-to-school carnival Aug. 25. Proceeds from the carnival will be used for teacher and school needs, including the development of a “maker space” where students can use advanced technology for their projects.

  • SCHOOL MENUS:

    Goessel, Hillsboro

UPCOMING

  • Christian author Scot McKnight to speak at Tabor

    Members of the public, pastors, and high schoolers will have opportunities to learn about Christians as “culture creators” when Christian author and professor Scot McKnight comes to Hillsboro on Monday and Tuesday for the inaugural “Exaudio: Listen and Live” lectureship sponsored by Tabor College. A two-part series open to the public will be at 7 p.m. Monday and 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.

  • Kansas water photo contest launched

    Water photos to be featured at the 2017 Governor’s Water Conference in November will be chosen from photos entered in a statewide contest. Photos can portray water or its use. Irrigation, agriculture, recreation, and other water use photos can be submitted.

  • Calendar of events

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