Joining the Marion County Board of Commissioners and the Marion City Council, the Hillsboro City Council passed a resolution last week throwing its support behind Peabody’s pursuit of establishing a passenger station along a rail route being proposed by the Northern Flyer Alliance.
Grand Funk Railroad will be pulling into Marion for a concert on June 7. The current band members are (from left) Bruce Kulick, Mel Schacher, Don Brewer, Max Carl and Tim Cashion. Schacher and Brewer are original members.
To the people of Marion,“Be ready to smile, and be ready to sweat,” said Grand Funk Railroad drummer Don Brewer. “We’re coming to your town.”
Brewer said he meant every word of the last part of the quote, which comes from a line in Grand Funk’s multi-million selling hit, “We’re An American Band.”
That’s because, he said, he loves festivals and the people who come to them—“the kids, the parents, the grandparents, just everybody.
Mathew Brown offers one of three valedictorian addresses at Sunday’s commencement. Eight fellow valedictorians look on: (from left) Ben Bebermeyer, Lauren Just, Jessica Klose, Amber Loewen, Meghan Jost, Anna Woelk, Jandi Nikkel and Grant Schneider. Phyllis Richert photo.
What does it mean when 13 of the 63 members of a high school graduating classes carry the title of either valedictorian or salutatorian?
It simply means the class, collectively, was one of the highest academic achieving classes in school history, according to Hillsboro High School principal Dale Honeck.
A record nine seniors in the 2008 class at Hillsboro High Schools were honored as valedictorians during commencement on Sunday, for maintaining a perfect 4.0 grade-point average during their high school careers.
Stan Williams uses on old belt to demonstrate how his waistline shrank during the “Biggest Loser” contest. Williams claimed first place when he dropped 36 percent of his body weight during the first four months of 2008.
Stan Williams admits he is competitive in anything he sets his mind to.
The drag-racing hobbyist from Marion applied his iron will to his bulging waistline and came away the big winner in the county-wide “Biggest Loser” contest, which ended the first week of May.
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