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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marion-Florence schools will switch to Apptegy Rooms as its primary communication platform to comply with new state law regulating school communications. The platform will allow school staff and ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another Day in the Country. Getting my ducks in a row. By PAT WICK © Another Day in the Country. It’s been a quiet week in Ramona, my home town, except on the corner of 5th and ...

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 ...