Brookens Law Office will shut its door at the end of the month when attorney Bob Brookens retires. While the Karstetter and Bina office will remain open for half a day each week on Main St., ...

The United States is divided about many issues; whether to celebrate Columbus Day is among them. While the city and county of Marion take Columbus Day off, and so does the federal government, the ...

Hillsboro tire shop Rod’s Tire and Service was purchased last week by Pomp’s Tire Service. Former owner Rod Koons will transition to a role as an “agricultural tire consultant” with Pomp’s, a national ...

The hairdressing veterans of the county, such as Martin Bina of Martin’s Barbershop in Marion and Randy Weins of Silver Shears outside Hillsboro, tend to have close relationships, built up over the ...

Herbel’s claims that former deputy Steve Janzen, current deputy Aaron Christner, and Marion officer Zach Hudlin, now Marion’s interim police chief, exceeded the scope of a search warrant executed Aug.

Prohibiting alcohol at Tabor is not a punishment. It is an effort to create a vibrant and safe community where students learn to find their fun in safe, constructive ways, learning to solve their ...

Marion City Council voted Monday to return $17,000 paid three years ago to a pair who said they wanted to build an RV and boat storage facility. When Ashley Unruh and Mark Evans, who formerly operated ...

In addition to Bradbury’s art, a petting zoo and climbing wall proved popular. So too did the Tomahawk Truck, an ax-throwing booth affixed to the back of a pickup truck. John Arndt ran the booth, ...

Just two county teams won Friday night — Marion over Inman in blowout fashion, and Peabody-Burns in a comeback against Marais des Cygnes Valley. The Warriors celebrated homecoming with a second-half ...

A Hillsboro family of four was displaced from its home by a fire a Saturday evening that took firefighters from Hillsboro, Durham, and Marion three hours to extinguish and clear the scene. Hillsboro ...

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Local author Debbie Oelke will be at Hillsboro Public Library, 120 E. Grand Ave., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday talk about her second book in a children’s series, “Be Kind: Understanding Disability.