Cover crops also have become more common. Planted between harvests, these crops keep living roots in the ground for more months of the year, stabilizing soil and reducing erosion. Not harvested, they ...

The proposed bylaws also would make a planning commissioner have to wait three years rather than one to be reappointed after completing three terms. Chairman Dave Crofoot objected to that proposed ...

Centre schools will be closed Thursday and Friday because of an outbreak of illnesses. According to a posting by Superintendent Daniel Ackland, 20% of the districts’ students are out sick with ...

What most folks don’t understand is that the planning commission, when considering a text amendment to regulations, is serving in a quasi-judicial capacity. Therefore, it is of upmost importance to ...

Services for Dean Filmore McGillivary, 99, who died Jan. 23, will be 5 to 7 p.m. March 18 at Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Born March 18, 1926, on a farm near Hayes Center, Nebraska, he was the sixth ...

Services for home builder and rancher Steven Leroy Jost, 87, who died Jan. 28, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Grace Community Fellowship, Hillsboro. Pastor Carl Helm will officiate.

Seemingly every time some new facility is proposed, its value as an event venue is touted. We heard it when the Sports and Aquatics Center and Performing Arts Center were built. We heard it more ...

“In Memoriam” listings are expanded paid obituaries, phrased largely as the family requests, and may include enhanced information or photographs that might not fit within free death notices.

The weather service expects weather that’s wetter and especially warmer than usual to continue through mid-February. However, prospects are for normal temperatures and below-average precipitation in ...

At Tuesday’s Hillsboro City Council meeting the League of Kansas Municipalities was hired to lead the search for a new city administrator. Current administrator Matt Stiles resigned to take a job in ...

After 49 years in law enforcement in Marion County Duane McCarty called it a career – sort of. While McCarty will not be on a force as a full-time officer, he agreed to work part-time on a very ...

No one is arguing that the names of the accused or his or her supposed victims should be released, especially while an investigation remains pending. But at least some indication of the scope of the ...