• Deja vu storm

    Temperature Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Tabor College students served the community by scooping snow after a winter storm. Clearing the sidewalks at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro on Monday afternoon were Tabor football players (from left) Keith Francis, Collin Hodges and Mark Hodges. The threesome was part of an eight-member sub-group of the team; each group is […]

    Deja vu storm

  • Hancock trades big-city TV for small-town college

    Katrina Hancock has followed her communications career path from Detroit to Tabor College, where she works as director of communications. ‘We have not given this college the exposure that it needs. I’m here to do that,’ she says. Even while making her mark in one of the largest television markets in the country, Katrina Hancock always stayed in touch with […]

    Hancock trades big-city TV for small-town college

  • Campaign goes public

    Tabor College erected two signs in Tabor Park last week as part of the announcement at the President’s Dinner Friday that the $6 million Signature Campaign, which includes the construction of a new fine arts center, is now in the public stage. The school needs to raise $2.7 million by the end of 2014 to qualify for a $1 million […]

    Campaign goes public

  • Marion library staff host open house for new addition

    Janet Marler (middle), Marion City Library director, thanks the public for making the new $120,000 addition a reality Friday during an open house celebration. Standing at left is Marler’s husband, Doug; to the right is Rachelle Thurston, one of the library staff members, who were helping at the open house. At a cost of $120,000, but using no tax dollars, […]

    Marion library staff host open house for new addition

  • Hillsboro man injured in rollover accident

    Marion County sheriff’s deputy Duane McCarty reviews the scene of the accident involving a grain truck Feb. 19 along Nighthawk Road. The accident injured the driver, Linferd P. Funk, 74, of Hillsboro. A 74-year-old Hillsboro man was injured in a one-vehicle rollover accident at about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, two miles south of 190th on Nighthawk Road. According to […]

    Hillsboro man injured in rollover accident

  • MHS wins regional wrestling title

    Nine of 12 Marion wrestlers competing at the Class 3-2-1A Douglass regional tournament qualified for the state competition Friday and Saturday. As a team, the Warriors won the regional tournament with 177.5 points. Team members were, from left: Noah Albin, Kyle Palic, Dylan Cochran, Zac Lewman, Ryan Cochran (kneeling), Luke Steele, John Nordquist, Adam Janzen (hidden), Jarrett Johnson, Ezra Darnall, […]

    MHS wins regional wrestling title

  • HES 5th-grader wins county bee

    The top three finishers at last week’s Marion County Spelling Bee were (from left) runner-up Surinda Bell from Hillsboro, champion Jessi Dalke from Hillsboro and third-place finisher Kylee Dixon from Marion. With each word, she spoke softly, spelled slowly and occasionally wrote with her finger on the palm of her other hand. But when she spelled “supplement” correctly, Hillsboro fifth-grader […]

    HES 5th-grader wins county bee

  • Hillsboro foundation awards nearly $16,000 in grants

    Chess Guild sponsor Leah Rose (second from left) and members of her team show off the grant award of $250 they received from Hillsboro Community Foundation board member Bryce Wichert (far left) during Friday’s presentation. The money will be used to cover the entry fee for 12 members to compete in the state tournament. Hillsboro Community Found­a­tion board members presented […]

    Hillsboro foundation awards nearly $16,000 in grants

  • Marion sees signs of progress in 2013

    This is one of the five new highway billboards erected in January 2014 promoting Marion as an E-community. “For over 10 years, the city of Marion has had signs stating ‘the town between two lakes,’” City Administrator Roger Holte said. “Now it states, ‘Explore, Grow and Prosper’ as our campaign." The city of Marion saw significant changes in 2013 that […]

    Marion sees signs of progress in 2013

  • Winter Overload

    About 100 Tabor College students and faculty members left their textbooks inside and grabbed snow shovels to help local residents clear their driveways and sidewalks after college classes were canceled Wednesday. Marion County was covered with a blanket of snow last week that ranged from 12.5 inches in the northern part of the county to 9 inches at the southern […]

    Winter Overload

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Around 75 turn out for Daddy Olympics

March 4, 2014 at 4:30 pm

Nearly 75 people attended the fifth annual Daddy Olympics for Marion County families Saturday at the Sports and Aquatic Center with children age birth to 5 years old. Lori...

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Pancake race unites food, competition

March 4, 2014 at 4:13 pm

Many moons ago, some Klein­sasser relatives from California traveled to Hills­boro for a family reunion. Given our state’s, shall we say, conservative bent, they had to...

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    Marion girls fall to Hutchinson Trinity

    Despite a six-point lead at halftime, Marion lost to Hutchinson Trinity 45-36 Tuesday in the regular-season finale. “We...

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    7 Bluejays earn All-KCAC honors

    Seven Tabor College basketball athletes have received All-KCAC awards. Senior guard Nikki Lewis was a unanimous...

    March 4, 2014 at 4:11 pm
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    Tabor baseball team splits two games

    The Tabor College baseball team split two games last week to put their record at 9-4. Oklahoma City—The Bluejays...

    March 4, 2014 at 4:11 pm

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Water meeting planned for Thursday

March 4, 2014 at 4:23 pm

The Neosho Basin Advisory Committee of the Kansas Water Office will host a meeting to discuss current water issues affecting the basin as well as the state at 1 p.m. Thursday,...

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Salem Home among best nursing homes in U.S.

March 4, 2014 at 3:50 pm

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Salem Home in Hillsboro among the nation’s best nursing homes. The distinction was based on data collected by the Centers for Medicare...

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Tabor juniors to present recitals

Tabor juniors to present recitals

March 4, 2014 at 3:38 pm

Picture Three music majors at Tabor College will perform their junior recitals at 7 p.m. March...