The inexperience of Centre is not unique in the county, as public school enrollment in rural Kansas has declined in lockstep with the general population. Goessel’s boys team, for example, graduated ...

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 ...

Popularity is not always a bad thing. Alumni often go on to use their popularity in school to help others and advance their own lives. The idea of homecoming is a lovely thing and remains such in most ...

New boiler could warm 40° classrooms. By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. Last week, as temperatures around the county plummeted, Marion High School principal Donald Raymer compared ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Talking on a cell phone, texting, or just taking your eyes off the road while driving are considered distracted driving, and all can have serious consequences. Kansas Department of Transportation data ...

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 ...

A former Tabor College fullback who drove a car that crashed Feb. 27, 2022, in a fiery wreck on Indigo Rd. south of Hillsboro was charged Monday with two counts of involuntary manslaughter while ...