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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Funeral Mass for Elizabeth Joan Navrat, 90, Wichita, who passed away Aug. 6, 2025, at Catholic Care Center in Bel Aire, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Built in 1964, Marion’s odd-looking water plant is still going strong. Blocky, made of large bricks, and painted a stark light blue by a former operator in the early ’80s, it strongly resembles a ...

A Hillsboro man was so badly injured Saturday in an accident on Indigo Rd. that he was airlifted to a Wichita hospital. Lloyd Funk, 89, was driving northbound on Indigo Rd. when he attempted to turn ...

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 ...

Camping will be available at City Park. Prices are $10 a day for primitive and $15 a day for electric. Festival entry will cost $15 a day or $40 for the weekend. Children younger than 12 will be ...

The novel is historical fiction in which a German soldier is captured in Tunisia and sent to a POW camp in Peabody. There, he meets a Mennonite family living next to Doyle Creek and falls in love with ...