Centre FFA member Emilee Remmers won first place in Diversified Horticulture Proficiency at the Kansas FFA convention May 28 to 30. She will receive a plaque and compete at the national FFA convention ...

Mass of Christian Burial for Catherine Louise (Bishop) Whitaker, 65, who died Friday, May 30, at her home in Marion, will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 5, at Holy Family Parish in Marion.

After 4½ in the Marines, Pryor returned to Kansas. Nervous about his prospects at Kansas State, he first enrolled at Salina Area Technical College, taking classes in electrical technology, before ...

The roughly 300 pilgrims trudging 60 miles from Wichita to Pilsen for an annual march honoring chaplain Emil Kapaun were particularly excited this year. The walk (or pilgrimage, or march, or camino) ...

Durham, population 92, doesn’t have much, but it does have perhaps the best coffee shop in the county: Main St. Café. Run by a large Mennonite family, the restaurant has a friendly staff, and its ...

A Mad Science program is planned for 10 a.m. June 18 at Marion Community Center. The interactive program, sponsored by Marion City Library., will be a free program for all ages. More information is ...

Probably my favorite pope was Pope Pius IX. Not many people know that as a young priest, he also served in Peru and Chile. Like Francis, he believed in “a spirit of fraternalism.” Pius IX served 31 ...

Cade Gossen, a member of the Peabody-Burns FFA chapter, and Natalee Bray, retiring State Sentinel from Pike Valley, were honored. The scholarships were established in 2025 in the name of the late ...

The bullet that penetrated Robbins’ house reportedly ricocheted off a kitchen cabinet and lodged in a wall above a sleeping baby. Another Peabody resident replied that her son had notified the sheriff ...

Perry Gutsch will be stepping down Friday as manager at Agri Trails Cooperative at Lincolnville. Gutsch has seen many advances in agricultural production since he started at Lincolnville almost 40 ...

Road Side Ranch Design, which offers clothes for men, women, and babies along with artistic shoes, caps, candles, cups, vanity license plates, placemats, kitchen towels, hair brushes, backpacks, ...

After retiring, Ogden and Dennis Maggard opened one of the county’s most unique businesses, Bearly Makin’ It Antiques, in 1994. The business’s Main St. storefront closed in 2022, but its iconic ...