The council endorsed a bid by librarian Janet Marler to apply for a grant to repair 23-year-old rotting windows at Marion City Library. The city already has paid for temporary repairs. “The library is ...

As Marion students return to walk the halls and sit in classrooms, seniors fondly remember their own school days. Reminiscing during a friendship meal at Marion Senior Center, Mark Tajchman, who ...

On a small lake, the wakes don’t have space to dissipate before hitting shore. In areas where water is 8 to 10 feet deep, they also disturb sediment on the bottom, releasing nutrients like phosphorous ...

Hillsboro residents have laid out their hopes and dreams for their town for a second time, and city council members gave the resulting strategic plan their seal of approval Tuesday. The last strategic ...

The city’s water department is using bright-red devices called automatic flushing boxes to try to remedy the problem. Boxes popped up in abundance last week. They periodically are attached to fire ...

The federal government’s transition to paperless checks will affect all payments, including tax refunds. It also means the federal government no longer will accept paper checks for payments of fees, ...

Another function of emergency management is to assist fire departments, law enforcement, and emergency medical services. When the county needs to issue a disaster declaration, emergency management ...

In most municipalities, council members begin budget deliberations in May, meeting with department heads to go over budget requests and gradually cobble together a proposed budget. For the third year ...

When her husband saw where she went, he sped past the sheriff’s office and turned west on Main St., where he nearly crashed into other cars. He then drove over railroad tracks on the west edge of town ...

Budgeting has nuances and challenges, to be sure. But at its core, the task is relatively simple. Employees create wish lists not unlike what children do for Santa, and elected officials are the ...

“They’re going to try the chip-seal oil to see if that will adhere,” county administrator Tina Spencer told commissioners. “If it doesn’t adhere, then they’ll have to clean everything out and switch ...

There is no shortage of fascinating subjects out here: lawsuits, festivals, crooked cops, blue-green algae, symphonies, ICE kidnappings, wind farms, and Tim McVeigh. My time in Marion has made me a ...