By PHYLLIS ZORN. Staff writer. An around-the-lake fun run March 15 to raise money for Youth Core Ministries was approved Monday by county commissioners.

Survivors include daughters Deborah Tomczak of Duisburg, Germany, and Rebecca Podszus of Olympia, Washington; and, brother Rod Podszus of Hartland, Wisconsin. Yagel-Megli Funeral Home, Marion, is in ...

Peabody mayor Catherine Weems spoke longingly at a city council meeting Monday night about hiring a city administrator.

A former county ambulance director under investigation when he resigned in August, 2023, lost his license Dec. 31.

Iris’ life began Feb. 6, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri. Her parents were Edward and Cora Mae (Ward) Raffety. Iris attended school in Springfield and on Aug. 30, 1941, she was united in marriage to ...

An offense report released by the sheriff’s office reported theft from former Peabody resident Amy Stutzman’s burned-down rural residence near 110th and Pawnee Rds., but the offense report and ...

A felony charge of child abuse was reduced Thursday to misdemeanor battery, but the defendant contends she didn’t agree to the deal. Defendant Amy D. Stutzman, 51, formerly of Peabody, now living in ...

A team of four, including two volunteers, worked Sunday and Monday on S. Buller to repair damage to a broken water main which prompted a boil order in Goessel. A water pipe burst at 9:30 a.m. Sunday ...

Services for Edmund Grothe, 89, who died Jan. 2 at Salem Home in Hillsboro, were Saturday. Interment was at Zion Lutheran Cemetery. Born Oct. 15, 1935, in Wichita to Edmund and Ruby (Hannaman) Grothe, ...

In the main building, the heating system works better, though Raymer noted that some classrooms on the northwest side can drop into the low 60-degree range. More portable heaters are used in those ...

If those senators stop backing WRAPS, it could lead to ecological paradise for algae and disaster for the water quality in Marion Reservoir. But if the money keeps flowing in, algae blooms may soon ...

Agree or disagree, it’s a valid point. Taxpayers footed the bill for the showers not to create a public bathhouse but to support camping. The problem is, the argument came to focus on whether people ...