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A 35-year-old man suffered severe anhydrous ammonia burns to his upper body and lungs Wednesday near US-77 and Broadway St. in Burns.
The man was unloading a semi truck with anhydrous ammonia when a hose failed, and a line burst. Gas doused the man’s face and entered his lungs, Marion County ambulance director Mickey Price said.
A months-long dispute with planning and zoning boiled over Monday as zoning commission member David Mueller demanded an end to what he called county commissioner Clarke Dirks’ attacks.
Mueller asked commissioners to formally declare Dirks’ concerns about him unfounded.
A little more than three months after joining Peabody City Council, member Rodney Hague was discovered dead in his home Tuesday morning.
He was in his 70s.
Bella Quiring and Grace Lynn noticed them in preschool.
Now second graders, they still stop on their walk home to watch the birds in David Loewen’s backyard aviary at A and Wilson Sts. in Hillsboro.
Dana Gayle dropped a handful of breaded nuggets into a vat of boiling oil.
They looked like chicken but weren’t.
When Florence honors Mary Jane Grimmett as grand marshal of its Labor Day parade Monday, it will be for a lifetime of the kind of public service — paid and unpaid — that holds a small town together.
At 78, Grimmett cheerfully works a roster of jobs exhausting just to recite: She is Florence city treasurer, library director, founder and editor of the Florence Crossroads monthly newsletter, Democratic precinct committee member, organizer of the United Methodist church’s food pantry and all its funeral dinners, and processor of paperwork for the Kansas Food Bank commodities handed out in town.
Peabody’s public health and safety officer, Denise Jantz, says police, public works employees, a private contractor and she have overlapping code-enforcement duties, but she cannot determine what work others completed.
“Who’s going to do code enforcement? Who’s in charge?” she asked city council members Monday.
Public comment returned to Peabody City Council meetings Monday as the body worked to make meetings more orderly.
Residents will have three minutes for general comments and may address individual new-business items after officials present them.
Hillsboro City Council members voted Tuesday to authorize up to $5.375 million in bonds for a new fire and public safety station.
Hillsboro used the public building commission to issue revenue bonds, then leased the station from the commission. Under Kansas law, that does not require an automatic public vote unless protest petitioned.
Blake Allen Newsome, 25, Hillsboro was arrested Friday after a woman told a school counselor that Newsome had choked her earlier that morning.
Police listed the alleged offense as choking a family or household member or someone in a dating relationship.
Since Marion released its proposed 2027 city budget, residents have questioned what some changes within it mean.
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Mark Twain had it right when he talked about the three most deceptive ways public policy can be influenced — “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Both the public and we journalists seem to have irrational fear of rational numbers. Reuters news service begins one of its guides for journalists with a formula: “Reporter + Number = Error.”
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Marion has made changes to fall sports this year in both football and volleyball.
Football has a new coach who once attended Marion High School, and the volleyball team promoted its junior high coach to the high school varsity court.
Hillsboro will compete in four varsity sports this fall: volleyball, football, cross country, and girls’ tennis.
Most teams will see continuity with their head coaches, except girls’ tennis, which hired a Trojan alumna to take the helm this offseason.
Goessel fall sports will consist of cross country, volleyball, and football this year.
The volleyball team looks to make a serious postseason run while a cross country state champion returns for his senior year.
One major change may be noticed this fall for Centre football.
This season, the Cougars will make the transition to six-player competition.
Peabody-Burns will compete in just football and volleyball this fall.
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