Tax-credit program seen as a way to spur business growth

Written by Don Ratzlaff Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:24

GolfCourseTreeP3182255.jpg The Hillsboro City Council heard at its March 17 meeting of a new revolving fund that is being established to provide seed capital for entrepreneurs and small-business owners in the Hillsboro area.

Gary Andrews (left), grounds superintendent at Hillsboro Muncipal Golf Course, watches as Smoky Valley Nursery of McPherson plants a large English Oak on the course last Wednesday. The Hillsboro Golf Association was promised $3,800 from the city to help it replace 13 trees...

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Boxfuls of hometown care

Written by Jerry Engler Tuesday, 17 March 2009 13:37

Chaputs4655.jpg Karen and Gary Chaput of Marion box up care packages to be mailed to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to foods, snacks, clothing, Girl Scout cookies, toiletries, reading materials and other items from the United States, each box contains a toy for an Iraqi child. Volun­teers, along with items for the care packages, are always needed, Gary Chaput said. If interested in contributing time, food or other help, call 620-382-2754.

Three years ago Gary...

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List for jail committee surpasses 20 names

Written by Jerry Engler Tuesday, 17 March 2009 13:35

Sheriff Rob Craft told Marion County commissioners Monday that he isaware of about 20 citizens who have asked to be on a jail planningcommittee that could recommend a new or updated building.

He toldthe commissioners he would be ready to close the application processFriday, and be ready next Monday to go over names with them to narrowthe committee to about a dozen members.

The commissioners said they were aware of more persons interested who should be contacting Craft before Friday.

They...

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Carson Center continues small-church vision

Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 17 March 2009 13:33

DrMerrillEwert.jpg Merrill Ewert, president of Fresno Pacific University, was the keynote speaker Saturday at Tabor College’s Carson Center banquet, the highlight of Carson Week activities March 13-18.

It was an extension of the worldview of the Carson Mennonite Brethren Church of Delft, Minn., a small, rural congregation known for sending far more than its share of missionaries and servant leaders into the world.

Even in the process of closing its doors, the congregation made...

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Councils join to plan for zebra mussel invasion

Written by Don Ratzlaff Tuesday, 17 March 2009 13:27

City leaders and staff from Marion and Hillsboro heard Thursday that there is a silver lining to the gloomy discovery of zebra mussels in Marion Reservoir last summer.

Because the discovery came early in the infestation stage, the two cities have had more time than most cities to prepare for the exponential growth of the invaders that will threaten their water-treatment systems.

That’s the only “good news” Jason Goeckler, biologist with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, had...

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