Lehigh, Hillsboro, Durham, and Goessel firefighters spent 3½ hours early Saturday battling a blaze that destroyed an unoccupied Lehigh house. Hillsboro, Durham, and Goessel firefighters were released ...

Students swam at the Sports and Aquatics Center pool, played in its splash pad, and dived off the diving board as parents kept an eye on the activity and visited with one another on pool bleachers ...

Paying for classroom supplies out of pocket is common for schoolteachers. The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the U.S., reported in 2022 that more than 90% of teachers ...

Inside Marion’s water plant. By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. Built in 1964, Marion’s odd-looking water plant is still going strong. Blocky, made of large brick ...

Nearly every editorial Susan wrote ended with a plea for readers to become more engaged with their community — as donors, volunteers, voters, even candidates for office. To her, citizenship meant ...

A memorial service for Orville Dwight “Otts” Waltner, 97, Moundridge, who passed away Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 at Pine Village in Moundridge was 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at Eden Mennonite ...

Veterinarian Brendan Kraus, who installed a solar array at his Spur Ridge Vet Hospital, had a 2014 agreement with the city that the city would pay him its retail rate to buy his system’s excess energy ...

Kim Frantz of Tampa won the Record ’s Beat the Heat contest Friday as the first to predict that Aug. 8 would be the first day of the year to surpass 100 degrees. Frantz made her prediction on July 9, ...

County commissions met behind closed doors Monday in what almost certainly was a violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act. The Marion County Record has filed a formal complaint with the Kansas ...

Saturday, 35 were in attendance as Cottonwood Falls native Christy Davis spoke about the launch of her U.S. Senate campaign against incumbent Roger Marshall — “tyrant loyalist Roger Marshall,” as ...

Bennett was born March 29, 1963, in Marion to Lester and Mayme (Swelha) Franta. He graduated from Circle High School in Towanda with the class of ’82 and took some college courses at Butler Community ...

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Katherine Marie Lenz, 77, on Aug. 3, 2025, with her family by her side at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in ...