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County EMS director Brandy McCarty resigned Monday, following a 35-minute executive session with commissioners that included attorney Susan Robson, medical director Don Hodson, and EMS advisory board chairman Gene Winkler.
“She felt that if we’re going to go forward that it’s time for new leadership and we need to take a different approach to how we’re going to do it,” Chairman Dan Holub said in accepting McCarty’s resignation.
County attorney Susan Robson decided she needed help more than a $6,000 raise, and commissioners Monday agreed to her request to divert the money to be used for hiring an assistant attorney.
“The way it is now, I don’t have anybody who can help me cover,” Robson said. “While a raise is nice and appreciated, having help would be even more appreciated.”
“Remembering the Fallen,” a traveling wall honoring service members from Kansas who have died in wars since the September 11 terror attacks, arrived Sunday in Hillsboro for a weeklong display at Hillsboro American Legion Post 366.
Post information officer Randy Frank coordinated the memorial’s visit, and his efforts were as personal as they were patriotic.
A band of leather-clad “biker elves” roared down the road toting toys for underprivileged children Saturday afternoon
The supplies are beginning to pile up in a corner of Margo Yates’s office, as they do every year. Community Christmas, an event under the Marion Chamber of Commerce umbrella, will go off without a hitch, Yates said.
As for the future of Community Christmas beyond when the chamber disbands Dec. 31, the supplies will continue to pile up as usual. Yates knows they will, she just doesn’t know whether it’ll be in the same corner of her office where they’ve been this time of year as far back as she can remember.
Fewer than 50 hours after saying he felt he had ample support from city administration, that he received “nothing but positive” feedback from the community, and that he was committed to Marion as long as his efforts were successful, economic development director Terry Jones resigned, citing a lack of support.
“Due to the current structure of the city, my efforts could not be put to their best use and I refuse to accept anything other than my best,” he wrote in his resignation letter to city officials Wednesday.
A Marion man sustained a “significant” throat laceration allegedly inflicted by a box cutter during a fight with a Marion woman’s ex-boyfriend.
The alleged altercation occurred at approximately 8:26 p.m. Oct. 27 at 623 S. Roosevelt, according to Marion Police.
Three individuals were jailed on drug-related charges Friday night, the culmination of a nearly eight-month investigation by Peabody police.
Peabody officers, assisted by Marion police, Marion County Sheriff’s officers, and Peabody EMS personnel, executed a search warrant at 710 N. Locust St. in Peabody.
A 2009 Mitsubishi Galant crossed the center line of US-77 near the Marion-Dickinson line Sunday morning and hit an oncoming tanker truck, killing the car’s driver, 19-year-old Sally Rowell of El Dorado.
The accident occurred at about 8:45 a.m. five miles south of Herington.
A newly renovated gasoline “filling” station sits at 4th and Main Sts. in Tampa. It does not provide fuel, but it looks as good as or better than it did when it was built more than 90 years ago.
David Mueller, a local farmer, purchased the derelict building in 2010 and had it restored inside and out. It was the first of several Main St. buildings he purchased and restored.
Magdalen M. Dvorak, 96, died Nov. 3 at the St. Luke Hospital in Marion.
The Rosary was recited Friday at Zeiner Funeral Home of Marion. The funeral Mass was Saturday at Holy Family Parish, St. John Nepomucene Church of Pilsen. Interment followed at Pilsen Cemetery.
Bennett L. “Ben” Holub, 56, died Nov. 2 at home.
Services will be Friday at St. John Nepomucene Church, Holy Family Parish, Pilsen, with the Rosary at 10 a.m. and funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. Inurnment will follow in Pilsen Cemetery.
IN MEMORIAM:
Neysa Eberhard
Lloyd Meier of rural Marion was recovering from heart surgery when he bought a registered Gelbvieh bull to use on his 30 commercial cows.
Now, 23 years later, the 61-year-old cattleman has a purebred Gelbvieh herd that he developed from that first bull.
Farmers are turning attention from soybeans harvest to cutting milo across Marion County.
Phil Timken, location manager for Mid Kansas Coop Association in Peabody, said about 99-percent of soybean crops surrounding Peabody have been cut, but weather and pests have slowed milo harvest.
Marion veterinarian Jessica Laurin had more than 100 friends join her for dinner Thursday at Lincolnville Community Center, and she prepared the main course: 60 pounds of slow-cooked beef shoulder clods.
As Laurin walked among the crowd, some asked for her recipe. None asked if there were any antibiotics in the meat.
Stockholders of Agri Producers Inc., Tampa, overwhelmingly approved a merger with Alida Pearl Co-op of Chapman and North Central Kansas Co-op of Hope. At a special meeting Nov. 4 in Tampa, the vote was 148-1 in favor of the merger.
The new co-op, which will launch March 1, will be known as Agri Trails Co-op, Inc. It will be headquartered in Hope. Kelly Novak of Tampa will be chairman of the board.
It was originally Armistice Day, not Veterans Day, meant to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when Allied forces and Germany signed the treaty that effectively brought World War I to an end.
Only astute students of history pay much attention to that these days, as World War I has been eclipsed by other wars, time, and the passing of all its heroes, the last in 2012.
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Nothing is as sweet or fulfilling as a mother’s love for her daughter, unless that love is accompanied by cake and cookies.
Heidi Thurston and her daughter, Rachel Olsen, both of Marion, have been cake decorators for years, working on separate projects as well as ones together.
KWCH meteorologist Ross Janssen and his dog Millie entertained the crowd at Tabor’s Lifelong Learning program Friday.
Prior to Janssen’s presentation, people lined up to have their picture taken with the pair.
A retirement ceremony and reception for Strong City attorney Charles Rayl will be at 3 p.m. Nov. 13 in the courtroom at Chase County courthouse.
Wheat State all-league volleyball Team has been announced, and Goessel High School has more girls on the team than there are spots on the court.
Seven Goessel girls made the team, including Page Hiebert, Eden Hiebert, Alyssa Booton, Alicen Meysing, Olivia Duerksen, Brittney Hiebert, and Aleena Cook. Leah Booton received an honorable mention.
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Hillsboro,
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Prairie Lawn Cemetery board will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 at Peabody City Building.
Topics for discussion or action will be payroll and payables, burials, and any cemetery concerns, suggestions, or problems.
Betty Ireland of Florence doesn’t like to answer calls with unfamiliar numbers.
One day in mid-October, Ireland got such a call. She didn’t answer. She ignored another from the same number the next day.
Being a soldier on an army base in South Vietnam during the Vietnamese War meant having a gun handy at all times, Ron Hajek of Lost Springs recalled.
He wasn’t a combat soldier but worked as a mechanic maintaining army trucks. Even so, he never felt safe.