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Jan 9, 2025 · County swearing-in postponed Monday’s scheduled reception for outgoing county officials and swearing in of new officials was postponed because of the weekend blizzard. At a year-end meeting Dec. 31, commissioners: Approved a new $1,557.31 computer for the county’s planning and zoning department, opting to reject a lower bid because it did not include a CD drive and featured a lesser ...

Jan 29, 2025 · POLICE ACTIVITY REPORTS Law enforcement agencies provided these reports of their activities this past week. Routine activities such as patrols, inspections, training, report-writing, and assistance to other agencies are excluded. Dates may reflect starting or ending dates of officers’ shifts rather than actual dates of occurrence. HILLSBORO Jan. 20 — Police provided active shooter training ...

Dec 31, 2024 · Clerk, raid dominate year’s news By ERIC MEYER Staff writer Looking ahead to 2025 surely must be more pleasant than looking back on 2024, a year in which unprecedented state and even national and international attention continued to be thrust upon Marion County. Two topics drew overwhelming attention in 2024, and both are likely to have continuing impact — hopefully, more positively — in ...

Jan 29, 2025 · ACCIDENTS REPORTED These accident reports were released this past week by law enforcement agencies: SHERIFF US-77 north of 140th Rd. Cyrillo Garcia, 85, Florence, was ticketed for driving with a suspended license after he tried to pass a dump truck at 11:18 a.m. Jan. 14, and his 2013 Ford C-Max collided with a 2022 Ram 350 that had been trying to pass both Garcia’s car and the truck. Both ...

Jan 29, 2025 · ‘Asking for a disaster to happen’ By PHYLLIS ZORN Staff writer Talking on a cell phone, texting, or just taking your eyes off the road while driving are considered distracted driving, and all can have serious consequences. Kansas Department of Transportation data show that a quarter of the state’s 52,043 crashes during 2024 were caused by distracted driving. Statewide, distracted driving ...

Jan 29, 2025 · A former county ambulance director under investigation when he resigned in August, 2023, lost his license Dec. 31. Curt Hasart was county ambulance director from October, 2022, until September, 2023. During this, Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services investigated him for possible failure to ...

Nov 26, 2024 · Magistrate to leave Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, criticized by a judicial ethics panel for signing soon-disavowed search warrants for the Marion County Record office and two homes in 2023, is being transferred out of the county. Chief Administrative Judge Benjamin Sexton announced last week that Amy Coppola, a magistrate at Junction City, has been assigned to begin serving 2½ days a week in ...

Dec 31, 2024 · ACCIDENTS REPORTED These accident reports were released this past week by law enforcement agencies: SHERIFF Nighthawk Rd. south of 100th Rd. Marjorie A. Hufman, 73, Hillsboro, hit a deer at 6:01 p.m. Dec. 19 with her 2020 Ford F-150, which sustained damage characterized as minor to its left front and hood, according to one of five accident reports released Friday. Old Mill Rd. south of 20th Rd ...

Sep 20, 2023 · Today, the Marion County Record starts its 155th year of continuous publication. More than 8,000 issues of the paper have come off the press since Issue No. 1 on Sept. 24, 1869. Famed Kansas lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson were still teenagers living back east when the Record, then known as The Western News, editorialized in its first issue printed in Marion about the need for better ...