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Dr. Rogers’ fine new business block nears completion. The doctor will occupy the south room with a drug store. Ira Moore, son of “Lank” Moore, is living here again with his family. Ira has the distinction of being the first settler born in Marion County. That event occurred May 7, 1862.

Broadcasts about these fire and ambulance calls were monitored this past week by the newspaper:. 12:21 a.m. — An unresponsive 55-year-old man at Westview Manor in Peabody was taken to NMC Health, formerly Newton Medical Center, by Marion ambulance. The ambulance returned to Marion at 3:05 a.m. An ambulance supervisor also responded.

A former reporter for a Kansas newspaper agreed to settle part of her federal lawsuit for $235,000 over a police raid on the local newspaper that made national news because of worries about violations of press freedom. Deb Gruver, a former reporter for the Marion County Record, settled on June 25 after suing former Marion […]

A former reporter for the Marion County Record in Kansas has accepted $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit after she was injured during a police raid on the newspaper.

W.C. Lockwood is preparing to build a fine two-story stone building with basement, 50x80 feet in dimension, adjoining Mrs. Tamiet’s building on the west. E.T. Howe has bought the northeast quarter of the beautiful plat on the hill formerly known as the public square and has commenced the erection of a fine two-story stone residence thereon.