HEADLINES

  • Lockdown follows 2 kidnaping arrests

    A Peabody school was placed on modified lockdown and two Peabody men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated kidnaping after three teenagers were threatened and one was assaulted, according to police officer Charles Walker. Peabody residents Joseph W. Estey, 21, and Brent A. Paquette, 33, were arrested after police reviewed digital evidence and juvenile eyewitness statements of the Oct. 6 incident.

  • Trash piles up as landfill slows

    Trash is piling up at Marion County’s transfer station as Butler County has begun limiting how much it will accept, transfer station director Josh Housman told county commissioners Tuesday. Butler is limiting deliveries to two loads a day because of problems with landfill slopes, Housman said.

  • Maternity 'deserts' learn to handle unscheduled births

    On a very early morning, a crackly dispatcher’s voice beaming out over Marion County emergency frequencies narrated an ambulance hunt across a dark rural grid to find a mom who’d just delivered a baby in a car on a roadside. Despite controlled professional monotone, the recording of the dispatcher blindly trying to direct medics to the car via hazy info relayed by the baby’s family members is 20 minutes of unfolding excitement.

  • Staying clean by helping clean

    Gary Hilliard, who’s now giving back to the community, remembers a time when addiction became so consuming that he no longer cared whether he lived or died. Once, while sitting in a drug house, he faced a man who threatened to shoot him if he refused to use the crack pipe Hilliard was offered.

  • Old pipes to blame for boil advisory at county lake

    UPDATE: Kansas Department of Health and Environment rescinded its boil-water advisory for Marion County Improvement District No. 2 at 9:41 a.m. Wednesday. In its announcement, KDHE found no evidence of bacterialogical contamination and other conditions that could've placed the water supply system at risk after samples were tested in the agency's laboratory. After years of wear and tear, an 8-inch water line at Marion Municipal Airport finally ruptured Monday, prompting Kansas Department of Health and Environment to issue a boil-water advisory for Marion County Improvement District No. 2 at the county lake.

OTHER NEWS

  • Grocers earn statewide business award

    Thursday was a monumental day for Carlsons’ Grocery. That’s when Marion’s primary produce provider since 1991 was named a To The Stars: Kansas Business Award winner by Kansas Department of Commerce during a ceremony at Fiorella’s Event Space in Overland Park.

  • Woman walks 2 miles for help

    An injured woman walked two miles into Marion County to called 911 from a farmhouse after a Harvey County rollover ejected the driver of the car she was in last week. The 30-year-old driver and the woman passenger suffered potentially serious injuries, Harvey County undersheriff Shawn Chapman said.

  • Unattended flushing 'not a concern'

    Water that gushed from a fire hydrant last week at Jefferson and 1st Sts. in Marion created a miniature creek and headed southbound for two blocks toward Washington St. Hydrant flushing isn’t new by any means, but not a single employee attended to it as 133 gallons of water spewed per minute.

  • Lone officer demands help

    Peabody police officer Charles Walker warned city council members Tuesday that he would begin looking for another job if he did not get help within a month. “I have to have help,” Walker said. “I’m going to give it one more month, and without help I’m going to start looking for another job.”

  • Woman stable after mowing crash

    A 70-year-old Peabody woman suffered serious injuries to both legs in a mowing accident Friday afternoon in the 700 block of N. Sycamore St. Her riding mower struck a steel playground structure in her backyard, about knee height for someone seated on the mower.

DEATHS

  • Eileen Butler

    Services for Mary Eileen Butler, 80, who died Friday at Salem Home in Hillsboro, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Hillsboro United Methodist Church. Visitation will be an hour before services at the church. Burial will be in Haven Rest Cemetery.

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Paul Attwater II

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Rod Suderman

FOR THE RECORD

OPINION

  • Restoring democracy by practicing it

    The question this year isn’t so much what scary ghoul you’re going to dress up as on Oct. 31. It’s what scary ghoul you’re going to vote for three days later. There’s no shortage of vampires, witches, and monsters to choose from. If you need a reminder, just turn on your TV. Dire attack ads are running back-to-back more often than “Gilligan’s Island” reruns, albeit without Mary Ann’s charm but with the same sense of helplessness about never being rescued.

  • ANOTHER DAY IN THE COUNTRY:

    Immigration issues

  • AMERICA AT 250:

    Treating life as a working draft

  • LETTERS:

    Free speech, Socialism, Renewable energy

PEOPLE

SENIOR LIVING

  • For the homebound, it's more than just a meal

    For older adults who are homebound, a weekday meal delivery provides more than good nutrition. It also brings a familiar face to the door — and a regular check-in that can be especially important for older people who live alone.

  • Care workers gain a stake

    Eligible Peabody Health and Rehab employees will receive company shares in retirement accounts at no cost after its parent company shifted to employee ownership. Mission Health Communities is now wholly owned through an employee trust.

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