Former commissioner Dan Holub was selected Thursday to fill the 4th District commissioner vacancy created by the death July 10 of Dave Crofoot. Once formally named by the governor, he will serve until ...

Two city billboards soon will be replaced after Marion City Council unanimously approved the upgrades Monday. Total costs will be close to $40,000. Miracle Signs of Wichita provided estimates.

County officials are weighing a fiberoptic project on farmland in the southwest corner of the county, slow-walking the proposal to mollify public anxiety about potential connection to data centers.

A new format for state Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball tournaments was tested over the weekend in Hillsboro. Instead of separate locations for each age division, the under-10, under-12, and under-16 ...

Pioneer Bluffs will sponsor its annual Day of the Cowboy starting with an ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. A program about the cow horse — including a guest speaker and panel of experts — will ...

A celebration of life reception for David Freeman Crofoot, 77, Marion, will be 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Marion Community Center ballroom, with a service at 2 p.m. Surrounded by his family Dave passed ...

Among the towns, only Florence, Lehigh, and Ramona said they would keep their tax rates at the revenue-neutral rate or lower. Florence went one step further, declaring it would not exceed a property ...

Despite fears, county voting machines can’t be hacked. By CLARA GERMANI. Staff writer. In spite of national anxiety about hacked voting machines — including assertions by a fo ...

The worst effect of excessive fascination with property taxes is that local governments, especially cities that provide utilities, avoid property tax increases by imposing more regressive taxes, like ...

By JUDD WEIL. Staff writer. Hillsboro has not identified enough money for several planned projects, including an airport improvement requiring a ...

There she met Joel William “Bill” Harmon, whom she married on Aug. 7, 1953. As a military family, the Harmons lived in many places over the years. In 1973, after Bill retired from military service, ...

The season of candidate forums is upon Marion County. The Record will sponsor a candidate forum for the contested 4th District county commissioner seat and the 70th District state representative seat ...