• Hillsboro girls’ and boys’ teams will be heading to Manhattan this week for state basketball

    Teams Members of the Hillsboro’s two champion basketball teams pose for a united photo following the boys’ 54-30 win in the title game of the Class 2A sub-state tournament at Berean Academy. Prior to that game, the girls prevailed over Moundridge 53-36 to wrap up the program’s fifth consecutive sub-state title. Members of the girls’ team are (from left) Rebecca […]

    Hillsboro girls’ and boys’ teams will be heading to Manhattan this week for state basketball

  • Hillsboro student section gets into the swing of things at sub-state

    Roller Coaster Spirit was running high in the Hillsboro student section during the third quarter of the boys’ championship game. Here they follow the lead of senior Chase Meisinger after the Trojans took a 29-19 lead against Berean. The enthusiasm spread beyond the students as Hillsboro fans nearly filled an entire side of the Berean gymnasium.

    Hillsboro student section gets into the swing of things at sub-state

  • 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

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City sells land for mystery business

March 11, 2014 at 6:27 pm

The Hillsboro City Coun­­cil has approved the sale of 3.7 acres—roughly three lots—in the Hillsboro Heights subdivision to a holding company that is looking for new...

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AREA HOOPS ROUNDUP

March 11, 2014 at 6:09 pm

Canton-Galva—The eighth-seeded Eagle girls lost to No. 1 Sterling 60-28 Monday in the quarterfinal round of the Class 2A sub-state basketball tournament hosted by Berean...

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Selling recylables proving to be financially helpful for county

March 11, 2014 at 6:23 pm

The process of separating recyclable materials from other solid waste—to market what can be sold and dispose of the rest—seems to be saving money for Marion County. Rollin...

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Ramona’s Brunner riding high with KSU rodeo

Ramona’s Brunner riding high with KSU rodeo

March 11, 2014 at 5:49 pm

Tanner Brunner, K-State junior in animal science from Ramona, topped 42 cowboys to be champion steer wrestler...

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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...