HEADLINES

  • Marion budget changes little except taxes

    At a hastily arranged meeting Tuesday night, Marion City Council members had no objections and few questions in approving a proposed budget that will make no changes in most city expenditures but will increase property taxes by 10.57%. Line items for virtually every city expenditure were set at exactly the same amounts as expected city expenditures for those items this year.

  • Another motorsport steers its way to Florence

    Florence is carving a niche for itself as the motor sports capital of Kansas. At 1 p.m. Sunday, a new motorsport will make its appearance there: the “Cento Miglia di Firenze.”

  • Dock issue continues to tie up at county meeting

    How to protect county lake docks moored for a second straight week Monday at county commissioners’ regular meeting. At last week’s meeting, lake resident and dock owner Marci Cain spoke about privatizing the docks.

  • 3-day festival helps Coneburg rise from the ashes

    Friday, Saturday, and Sunday people listened to music, danced, and had food and drinks to help Peabody’s iconic Coneburg Inn come back. Coneburg Inn looked to be a goner last December when it was gutted by a fire.

OTHER NEWS

  • Music historian brings back the real oldies in Goessel

    Everyone in a packed room Thursday night at Goessel’s community center recognized the first song musician and music historian Derrick Doty played on his great-grandfather’s fiddle. Doty said he didn’t know how old the fiddle was, but it would sound much like fiddles played when the song, “Turkey in the Straw,” was performed in the 1820s, before the melody was adapted and changed over the years.

  • Lake among state's first for new type of algae advisory

    A special, apparently more serious algae advisory was issued Friday for Marion County Lake. State announcement of the advisory did not specifically mention problems caused by wakeboarding but seemed to imply a relationship.

DEATHS

  • Helen Leppke

    Services for Helen Leppke, 86, rural Peabody, who died Aug. 20 at St. Luke Hospital, Marion, were Tuesday at Aulne Bible Church. Burial was at Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Peabody.

  • Jerry Waner

    Services for Jerald Eugene “Jerry” Waner, 65, Marion, who died June 28, will be noon Saturday at Marion County Lake hall. Military honors for the former Navy Seabee, born May 2, 1960, will be accorded at 2 p.m. Saturday at the hall.

  • IN MEMORIAM:

    Eleanora Goertzen

FARM

  • Spraying likely targeting soybean podworms

    Crop sprayers have been seen over many Marion County soybean fields in recent weeks. The likely reason is an appearance of soybean podworm, extension agent Rickey Roberts said.

FOR THE RECORD

LABOR DAY

  • Burdick plans third revival of historic ranch rodeo

    This year’s Diamond Valley Round Up will be Sunday and Monday in Burdick. It will be the third ranch rodeo in Burdick since many years ago, when ranch rodeos faded from the community.

  • Full weekend of activities planned in Florence

    Florence will pull out all the stops and present everything from games for kids and adults, a cyclekart race, World War 11 reenactments, a street dance, and other entertainment during its Labor Day weekend celebration. World War II

OPINION

  • Is Kansas represented by a cowardly lion?

    Control the message. In an age of anti-social media and nattering network nabobs, it’s the mantra of cowardly politicians, self-serving bureaucrats, and shameless corporate bootlickers. Requests for interviews are answered by prefabricated statements, carefully crafted to skirt issues and cover them with platitudinous sloganeering. Supposedly public forums are craftily choreographed to ensure that only desirable questions dance their way to whoever is answering them.

  • Balancing budgets on the back of democracy

    Please forgive any lapses in this week’s paper. Not only are we down a reporter. (A candidate to replace him is coming this weekend.) A lot of last-minute work also is being done remotely, from a laptop in Lawrence. Before I knew exactly when Finn Hartnett would be ending his yearlong fellowship, I accepted an invitation from the Dole Institute of Politics to talk Tuesday night about journalism’s impact on communities and society.

  • ANOTHER DAY IN THE COUNTRY:

    Spending time with friends

  • LETTERS:

    A fridge fan, Saving journalism, What USA needs, Drinking ICEd tea

PEOPLE

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MARION COUNTY WEATHER
Sunny, Showers, Thunderstorms and 74
LIVE RADAR AND CURRENT CONDITIONS
Temperature   74 degrees at 11:05 a.m.
Today's high so far   74 degrees
Today's low so far   53 degrees
Relative humidity   80%
Wind   SE at 0.0 mph, gust to 0.0
Barometric pressure   30.00 inches of mercury
Precipitation today   0.01 inches
FORECAST AT A GLANCE
TODAY
Sunny, Showers, Thunderstorms
85
SW 6-13
 
 Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
54
ESE 7-12
 THU
Sunny
79
SE 3-8
 
 Partly Cloudy then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
57
SW 8
 FRI
Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
66
NNE 7-10
 
 Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy
48
ENE 2-7
 SAT
Mostly Sunny
72
SE 2-6
 
 Partly Cloudy
54
SE 5
 SUN
Mostly Cloudy
73
SE 5-9
 
 Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers
58
SSE 8
 MON
Slight Chance Rain Showers
72
SSE 6-12
 
 Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
58
SSE 6-10
DETAILED FORECAST
  • Today — A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 85. Southwest wind 6 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
  • Tonight — A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. East southeast wind 7 to 12 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
  • Thursday — Sunny, with a high near 79. Southeast wind 3 to 8 mph.
  • Thursday night — A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. Southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
  • Friday — A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7am and 1pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. North northeast wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
  • Friday night — A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
  • Saturday — Mostly sunny, with a high near 72.
  • Saturday night — Partly cloudy, with a low around 54.
  • Sunday — Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73.
  • Sunday night — A slight chance of rain showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
SEVEN-DAY ALMANAC
TemperatureDegree daysPrecip-
DateHighLowHeatingCoolingitation
08/27/2025685540.13
08/28/2025716310.14
08/29/2025786660.00
08/30/2025776130.01
08/31/2025766441.86
09/01/2025816470.45
09/02/2025685730.00
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