Marion council sets minimum price for building

Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 18 December 2012 14:24

The Marion City Council agreed at its Dec. 10 meeting not to accept bids for the city-owned Arlie’s Paint Body &?Glass building and land for under $200,000.

The unanimous decision came after Mayor Mary Olson asked City Administrator Doug Kjellin of he had anything new to report on the property.

“Nothing is on the (Dec. 10) agenda,” Kjellin said, adding that perhaps Barry Linnens, president and owner of Cottonwood Valley State Bank, who was present at the meeting, would like to talk about it.

Kjellin said, “We still have an offer on the table (of $130,000 in cash and no financing). If we can’t come to an agreement on the lease purchase or outright cash purchase of the building agreement then (Linnens) will be under a time...

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USPS rep explains future options for Cedar Point patrons

Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 11 December 2012 14:44

The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a plan to reduce hours at some 13,000 offices to include Cedar Point and other facilities in Kansas, according to information presented Wednesday at a public meeting in Cedar Point.

As a result of the Post Office Structure Plan or POStPlan, Mike Monnington, manager of post office operations for the Kansas Central Plains, said Cedar Point’s facility is going from seven hours a day to four.

The change is expected to happen in the latter part of January.

A handful of people learned about the decision at the meeting in Cedar Point’s old school gymnasium.

“I like to describe the post office as being similar to a coop (both are not-for-profit businesses),” Monnington told the...

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Auxiliary launches funding projects

Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 04 December 2012 18:20

Velma Hadley, co-chair of the Hillsboro Community Hospital Volunteer Auxiliary, organizes books ready to be purchased as Christmas gifts or for someone in the hospital. The bookcase is inside the main entrance of HCH on the northside of the waiting room lobby. The Hillsboro Community Hospital Auxiliary raised $500 last month at its Bake & Book Sale with proceeds going toward the purchase of a portable ultra sound, said Velma Hadley, auxiliary volunteer co-chair.

“The portable ultra sound will be for use in the emergency room and hospital,” she said.

Now in its fifth year as an auxiliary, the group provided Amy Bartel of Hillsboro with a scholarship last year.

The organization will have another fundraising event in mid-February for a second scholarship, Hadley said.

The auxiliary is also hoping to raise money by selling books in the north end of the waiting area lobby.

“We have a bookcase filled with a variety of books to include Christian, medical, children’s and more,”...

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County reports unusually high sales tax for month

Written by Jerry Engler Tuesday, 04 December 2012 18:19

Marion County commissioners met Friday, Nov. 30, in a $1,666,256 payday session.

County Clerk Carol Maggard reported unusually high sales tax collection for September, collected by the state in October, and paid to the county in Novem­ber, of $61,137 regular sales tax and $54,219 for payment and reserve for jail bond payment.

This brought the total regular sales tax collected for the first 11 months of 2012 to $606,860, not far from the $645,561 reported in all 12 months for 2011.

According to Maggard’s report for the past decade, the first time sales tax collections ever exceeded $600,000 was in 2009 at $600,165.

Following executive sessions with Maggard, the commissioners approved giving all 102 county full-time employees each a...

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