One perk of the Stay at Home order has been all the gas money and wear and tear that people have been saving on their cars. Even essential errands around town have often become ones that people opt to use as an excuse to stretch their legs and walk to. Well, it looks like you might be able to save […]

Dr. Gregory Erb currently sees patients in Hillsboro Monday-Wednesday and then in Herington the rest of the week. Many people in Marion County are already familiar with Dr. Gregory Erb from when he worked at Hillsboro Community Hospital and the Hillsboro clinic. Last year, he switched over to Herington Hospital where he spends part of his time. The rest of […]

Christa and Bronson Shipman, both serving on the front lines of the pandemic, dreamed of having a baby for a while before they were able to conceive. But they almost didn’t get to have their maternity photoshoot. Photo by Karrie Rathbone   Christa and Bronson Shipman had been trying for a while to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF) […]

The third positive case COVID-19has been announced in Marion County by the Marion County Health Department. The case involves a female between the ages of 55-64. The Marion County Health Department is identifying and contacting those individuals whom were exposed. Close contact is defined as being within six feet for 10 minutes or longer. The Marion County Health Department will […]

Until this afternoon, Marion County has remained one of the last few counties to have a positive case of COVID-19. At 3:42 p.m.  today, the Marion County Health Department sent out a press release announcing the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Marion County. Testing sent to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Laboratories identified the positive case. […]

  Superintendent Max Heinrichs and the USD 410 school board met on Wednesday, April 1 for a special meeting. The USD 410 School board and Superintendent Max Heinrich met online via Zoom for a Special Board meeting on Wednesday, April 1 to discuss two items. The first item on the agenda was the Resolution of the Board regarding wage payments […]

Tammy (left) and Maddy Daniels talk about Maddy’s birth and now her Sr. year   While many school-aged children are feeling a sense of confusion and loss right now with school building closing, sports being canceled and rites of passages like proms and graduations uncertain, high school seniors probably face the most loss. And one Marion County senior and her […]

#frontstepsproject is a global project where photographers capture (from a safe social distance) some of the stories going on in individual homes. Three area photographers hit Hillsboro homes as well as two Marion ones to capture some stories. These pictures were done by Jessi D. Photography. The Driggers family acted out some “Star Wars” scenes since they have been rewatching […]

What many people had been dreading and others had been hoping for happened over the weekend. Governor Laura Kelly issued a “Stay at Home” order on Saturday that became effective on Monday, March 30 at 12:01 a.m. Governor Kelly issued the order as part of the ongoing efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Kansas, making it the 22nd […]

Learning a new way of living and working has been difficult on all of us, but especially for Marion residents who dealt with loss of power for three days last week. Thankfully, city officials were able to keep residents updated and work with contractors to get a solution as quickly as possible. It started on Wednesday with a power outage […]