30 years ago

july 17, 1996

Ground was broken this week for a new Casey’s General Store at 1020 E. Main St, in Marion. The store is scheduled to be open in January.

Jane Makovec is resident of the month at Hilltop Manor. She has been living there since 1985.

“I just live here,” Jane said. “I don’t have to worry about anything, and I can sit in the privacy of my backyard and enjoy the fresh air.”

In what was termed an across-the-board pay raise, Marion County commissioners granted $35 a month increases in pay for all employees except themselves.

A service Sunday at Marion Presbyterian Church will celebrate the 125th anniversary of a charter to establish a Presbyterian congregation in Marion.

Two Cougars from Centre High School, Nick Evancho and Kelly Wonser, have been selected to play in the 11th annual Kansas eight-man all-star football game Saturday in Beloit.

Ern Hett’s Copper Shed, south of Marion, was featured in an article in a recently published travel and leisure section that appeared in several Kansas City area newspapers.

The former Marion municipal power plant building has been sold by the city to K.C. Development. Plans are to convert the building into a waste transfer station.

Trash trucks will enter from the south and dump inside, where trash will be compacted and loaded onto larger trucks for delivery to a regional landfill. Trucks will exit the building on the north side, according to company owners Rex Savage and Theo Bond.

Cottonwood Valley 13-year-old all-stars won a District IV tournament this weekend and will move on to a state tournament this weekend at Pittsburg.

Players include Tyrell Becker, Jamey Cooper, and Chase Freeborn of Marion; Mike Hagen and Jeremy Loewen of Hillsboro; Jeremy Scheffler of Peabody; and Don Cox and Ryan Hayes of Council Grove.