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A blue-green algae watch was issued Friday for Marion County Lake.
The lake is among 13 bodies of water in Kansas under algae watches. Eight other bodies of water are under more serious algae warnings. Marion Reservoir is not among either group.
Marion County commissioners are pondering a $4.2 million request from the road and bridge department to completely rebuild a stretch of 330th Rd. between Limestone and Quail Creek Rds.
Rebuilding it would mean ripping up the road entirely, laying new foundational material, and then paving over it with asphalt.
An arrest Sunday of a Tampa man accused of disciplining his child too severely has highlighted concern over corporal punishment.
A deputy was sent to a home near Tampa about 6:20 p.m. Aug. 23, undersheriff Larry Starkey said.
Former Marion police chief Gideon Cody’s trial on felony charges is unlikely before next year as his new attorneys review tens of thousands of pages of evidence.
No trial date was set at a status hearing Monday. Another hearing was scheduled for Oct. 1.
But Nathan Graber, who roped his first drafthorse at age 5 and says they “have a way of looking into your soul,” begs to differ.
Last spring, he and his 14-year-old son, Pete, adopted Ray, Silver, Charlene, and Charlie — distinctively shiny, powerful creatures — from the Bureau of Land Management wild horse and burro program.
For months in 2003, Morgan Marler had a problem.
A blue-green algae bloom had taken over Marion Reservoir, unlike anything the lake had seen before.
Repairs to a leak in Marion County’s courtroom will begin this week.
County commissioners unanimously accepted a $47,441 bid Monday from Hutton Construction to begin repair of a wall that has leaked from the courtroom and into the county clerk’s office one floor below at least since a hailstorm in April.
Former Chase County deputy Michael Ragsdale is under investigation for underage drinking at a property he owns near Cedar Point.
Deputies were called at 11:48 p.m. at Aug. 7 to a large party in the 500 block of EF Rd. after receiving a report that people younger than 21 were drinking. Several people under 21 were cited for underage consumption of alcohol.
Peabody police are investigating theft at Dollar General and expect charges to be filed.
Officer Charles Walker declined to identify a suspect, say what had been stolen, or provide other details while the investigation continues.
Durham’s boil-water advisory was lifted after five days late Tuesday afternoon.
The advisory was issued Thursday after failure of disinfection equipment caused low chlorine levels and concern about possible bacterial contamination.
Butler County Fire District 10, based in Burns, will receive a $10,000 grant, one of 150 awarded through State Farm’s Good Neighbor Firefighter Safety Program nationwide.
Burns will use its grant to buy self-contained breathing apparatuses, worn by firefighters in hazardous environments.
Marion County farmers are eligible for federal emergency loans after drought prompted the USDA to designate neighboring McPherson County a natural disaster area.
USDA designated McPherson and seven other Kansas counties after prolonged severe or worse drought.
A private memorial service is planned for Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, 94, Burdick, who died Friday in Manhattan.
Born July 29, 1932, in Topeka to Theo (Cobb) Landon and Kansas governor and later Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon, she was a three-term U.S. senator from Kansas.
Services for Paul Raymond Morse, 88, Marion, who died Friday, were to have been this morning.
Born Dec. 29, 1937, in Hillsboro to Earl and Hattie (Klenk) Morse, he grew up in Marion, graduated from Marion High School in 1956, and received degrees from Hutchinson Community College, Wichita State University, and Emporia State University.
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It is perhaps fitting that one of the best tributes to our area’s most famous and widely respected residents came from a member of a rival political party.
“Nancy Kassebaum was a force in the United States Senate,” Joe Biden’s White House announced in honoring her with one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. “She stood up for what she believed in even if it meant standing alone, and she reached across the aisle to do what she believed was right.”
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They say it’s the longest week of your life — “which is pretty accurate,” Marion High School senior Zayden Janzen said with a laugh last week.
Janzen and fellow seniors Samuel Rziha and Jordy Raymer experienced that “longest week” at Boys State, a summer program teaching high school students the fundamentals of state government, from May 31 through June 6 at Kansas State University’s Goodnow Hall.
Tabor College has named new leaders of two of its signature programs.
Assistant professor of theology Ryan Loewen will take the reins of the Center of Mennonite Brethren Studies, which preserves stories, theology, and historical memory that shape Mennonite Brethren identity.
A town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 1 at Peabody Township Library will discuss the city’s 1% sales tax, which will expire March 31.
The tax collected $607,137 from 2021 through 2025, including $98,790 last year.
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