A total of 264 write-in votes, were tallied, easily outpacing ballot-listed candidates Randy Dallke with 59, Beth Peter with 57, James Philpott with 39., and Jennifer Bush with 31.

County commissioners’ plan to purchase an empty retail store in Peabody to store road and bridge equipment failed Oct. 29. The county was outbid for the former Family Dollar / Dollar Tree store in an ...

Peabody has flouted budget law since ’16. By MICHAEL MARESH. Staff writer. For at least nine years Peabody has knowingly violated Kansas law to publish an accounting of money, a ...

Keeping school kids in clothes can be expensive, but it’s nothing compared to outfitting ambulance workers. If you work for the Marion County ambulance service it’s quite expensive, all at the expense ...

Peabody City Council members completed their mandated hour of training Monday on Kansas Open Meeting Laws. Council members listened intently as Nicole Proux Aiken with the Kansas League of ...

Nikki Davenport, administrator for the 8th Judicial District, which includes Marion County, has been elected president of the Kansas Association of District Court Clerks and Administrators. The 8th ...

Police Chief Matthew Neal and new officer Jessica LaValley handed out stick-on press badges and candy but ran out of candy. The town brought them additional candy.

During the stop, he reported discovering 10.6 grams of marijuana, rolling papers, and a lighter. Huebert arrested driver Jimmere F. Mills, 33, Hemmingway, South Carolina, on suspicion of possessing ...

A 45-year-old delivery driver collapsed on a lawn Friday at 515 Locust St., in Marion and later died at St. Luke hospital. He was taken by ambulance to St. Luke, where he later died. Interim ambulance ...

Warren Kreutziger was 20 when he enlisted in the Army. A Marion native, he spent three years in the service, roughly half in stateside duty and half in Vietnam. He enlisted instead of waiting to be ...

St. Luke Hospital performed 38 lab tests and Hillsboro Community Hospital did 44. Marion County Health Department gave out 26 flu and covid vaccines. “This was a way to support health and to give back ...

Hess, a contributing author of “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets,” will have her own book signing from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the library. The book was published Oct. 28.