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Support for newspaper goes global: They sent pizza, offered computers, volunteered to edit copy and do research, increased advertising, and bought subscriptions to the 154-year-old Record. Thousands of people from around the world pledged support for…
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SEIZED...BUT NOT SILENCED: KBI takes over: The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has taken over a case that led to police and sheriff’s deputies seizing computer equipment and cell phones Friday morning from the Record office, the home of its co-owners, and…
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'A whole lot of history' dies with Joan Meyer: Joan Meyer spent each of her almost 10 decades of life in about a six-block radius in Marion, but she was a worldly woman who had an impactful newspaper career, a vigilance with words, a powerful sense of…
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Mayor can't understand what police did wrong: Worried that “everybody’s looking at Marion like we’re a bunch of hicks now,” Mayor David Mayfield is attempting to deflect blame for an illegal raid Aug. 11 on the In an interview published Saturday in the…
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Newspaper equipment returned: Computers, cell phones, and other electronic equipment grabbed by police during a raid Friday on the Marion County Record office and the home of its owners were released Wednesday under an agreement between the Record’s…
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A note to our readers and supporters: We are so incredibly thankful for the outpouring of support we are receiving from around the nation and world. We know it is taking longer than usual for us to respond to requests for subscriptions or to acknowledge…
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Poor vetting can mean poor hires: Marion City Council members spent 50 minutes April 20 interviewing Gideon Cody, then a captain in the Kansas City Police Department. The next morning, Mayor David Mayfield offered him a job as police chief. The [FULL…
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City officials quiet about police raids: City and county officials have largely remained mum about a police raid Friday on the Record newsroom, the home of its co-owners, and the home of vice mayor Ruth Herbel. City administrator Brogan Jones said he…
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Publishers' group warns of threats to democracy: Community newspaper publishers, editors, and executives from across the United States resoundingly voted over the weekend to reaffirm their commitment to a free press undisturbed by unannounced police…
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Marion was warned before hiring chief: “Cody has a shiny exterior, but when you dig deeper, it’s not very pretty.” That’s what a Kansas City police officer said when asked by a Record reporter in April what he would tell Marion City Council members about…
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New evidence questions Collett's role: Newly obtained evidence is casting doubt on city council member Zach Collett’s protestations of not being involved in the run-up to raids Aug. 11 on the Record’s newsroom and homes of its co-owners and Vice Mayor…
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Those who live in glass houses . . .: Nothing warms the heart quite like being ejected from one public meeting or being falsely accused at another. It was particularly pleasant to hear it claimed that the ejection was at the behest of prominent citizens…
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'The free world is with you': The following is a sampling of the hundreds of emails and messages the Record has received since police raided it newsroom Friday. The free world is with you. — Jeremy Ainsworth This kind of Third World interference with…
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How dare they: As A journalist, I’m incensed by government violating the First Amendment by raiding a constitutionally protected newsroom. As a citizen, I’m incensed by government violating the Fourth Amendment by searching for things it could have…
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Residents tire of 'backpedaling' on chief: Despite ever more insistent calls for police chief Gideon Cody to be suspended or fired, Marion Mayor David Mayfield still refuses to consider doing so. Residents have called for Cody to be suspended since raids…
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Chief accused of urging Newell to destroy evidence: A state investigation of the Aug. 11 raid on the Partly in response to this and to what she said were efforts by Cody to continue his aborted investigation and to publish a book about it, Newell told…
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UPDATED: Mayor blocks council's planned discussion of chief: Despite city council members unanimously voting two weeks ago to discuss the police chief Gideon Cody Monday, Mayor David Mayfield took steps Friday to remove the topic from their agenda. Vice…
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Reporter files suit against police chief: Police Chief Gideon Cody came to the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter who had questioned him about alleged misconduct at his previous job. As Gruver…
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Longtime Marion officer heads to Hillsboro: By the time Duane McCarty starts his new job Aug. 21 with the Hillsboro Police Department, four of five Marion officers will have quit since late last year. McCarty announced Friday that he was resigning from…
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City was warned before hiring chief: “Cody has a shiny exterior, but when you dig deeper, it’s not very pretty.” That’s what a Kansas City police officer said when asked by a Record reporter in April what he would tell Marion City Council members about…
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Chilling video shows raid on 98-year-old newspaper co-owner's home: Video released Monday reveals the frustation experienced by 98-year-old Marion County Record co-owner Joan Meyer during during a nearly two-hour search of her home Aug. 11 by Marion…
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DUI leaker never interrogated: Pam Maag has, for a while now, expected Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents or Marion County sheriff’s deputies to show up at her door on Upland Rd. No one from law enforcement has arrived to search her home at Marion…
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Unpaid taxes up 24%: Unpaid property taxes soared a near-record 24.2% this year to a four-year high, according to an official notice published this week in the Countywide, delinquent ad valorem taxes for 2022 rose by more than $86,000 to $442,096.91 —…
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Secretly seized data, photos returned to newspaper: After nearly a week of legal wrangling, evidence not initially listed among items seized in raids Aug. 11 on the Under terms of a court order agreed to by all parties and approved Tuesday by Chief Judge…
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Mayor knew raid was coming: Before City Administrator Brogan Jones emailed Mayor David Mayfield on Aug. 4 to tell him police wouldn’t follow up, Chief Gideon Cody met with Mayfield to say he would investigate the source of allegations that a Marion…
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KBI questioning sheds new light on raid: Two weeks after police searched the Both confirmed that documents Marion police supposedly were looking for in the raid came from them, not from any attempt at identity theft. Restaurateur Kari Newell’s estranged…
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Mayor can't understand what police did wrong: Worried that “everybody’s looking at Marion like we’re a bunch of hicks now,” Mayor David Mayfield is attempting to deflect blame for an illegal raid Aug. 11 on the In an interview published Saturday in the…
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Chief abruptly resigns: Three days after his suspension was announced, embattled Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody abruptly resigned Monday. Cody was suspended Thursday after Mayor David changed his mind after weeks of insisting he would not suspend Cody…
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Newspaper begins its 155th year: Today, the Famed Kansas lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson were still teenagers living back east when the The paper — Marion’s second oldest business, trailing Case and Son Insurance by a single year — has seen 28…
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Chief mum as White House, attorney general talk about raid: At a home he rents on a country road four minutes from the Record office he raided Friday, Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody refused to comment Thursday about the Kansas Bureau of Investigation…
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Media ejected at open forum: Two representatives of the news media were ordered by Marion police chief Gideon Cody to leave a public reception Tuesday for U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner. Cody’s directions came at the behest of Kari Newell, proprietor of Chef’s…
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Embattled police chief abruptly resigns: Three days after his suspension was announced, embattled Police Chief Gideon Cody abruptly resigned Monday. His resignation, effective immediately, was announced by Mayor David Mayfield near the end of a biweekly…
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Cody faces fraud suit in Leavenworth real estate deal: Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody is battling a fraud suit filed Feb. 27 in Leavenworth County over his real estate dealings. The suit was filed by lawyer Benjamin Rioux on behalf of Easton residents…
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Turning shame into pride: Shameful as it was to see the 1st and 4th Amendments trampled by jackboots, illegal searches to investigate perfectly legal actions weren’t the biggest problems arising from raids Aug. 11 on our office and elsewhere. In a…
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Funeral: 'Small town does not mean small mind': Two days before his mother’s funeral, Marion County Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer asked whether full-time employees — all women — could gather ’round. “I need some womanly advice,” he said. He…
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Facts ignored in targeting Record: Documents newly obtained under the Kansas Open Records Act reveal that Marion police ignored key facts in targeting this newspaper and this writer in simultaneous raids Aug. 11 on the newspaper and the homes of its…
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Internet monitors help bust child porn suspect: A tip from a Sedgwick County task force that investigates online sexual exploitation of children ultimately led to the Aug. 2 arrest of a Peabody man charged the same day with 39 criminal counts. Miles…
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Details of Cody's background emerge: Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, who led the illegal raid Aug. 11 on the “He thinks he’s above everyone,” the former detective said. “I’ve known him since he was brand spanking new. I worked with and for him.” Cody is…
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County attorney was aware of Cody's plans: County Attorney Joel Ensey, who repeatedly has ducked questions about his involvement in raids on the Marion County Record, was fully aware of Police Chief Gideon Cody’s strategy for seeking search warrants…
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KBI questioning sheds new light on raid: Two weeks after police searched the Both confirmed that the document Marion police said they were looking for in the raid came from them, not from any attempt at identity theft. Restaurateur Kari Newell’s…
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GUEST COLUMN: When press is under assault, so is Constitution: Faced with the prospect of bad publicity, people in positions of authority, in some cases with a particularly conservative political ideology, are using the legal system as a weapon in a war…
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Prosecutor ducks warrant questions: County Attorney Joel Ensey would not answer questions this week regarding his role in Aug. 11 raids on the Marion County Record, the home of its owners, and the home of Marion Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel. Ensey claimed that…
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Ex-cop faces 21 additional child pornography charges: Former Burns police chief Joel Womochil, 38, El Dorado, already charged with 13 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, was charged last week with 21 additional counts. Added to the original charges…
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Public presses for answers: Mayor David Mayfield is a “chicken sh*t,” a Marion resident said during public comment at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Ryan Newell challenged Mayfield’s assertion that he didn’t know Chief Gideon Cody planned to raid the…
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Lights! Camera! . . . . (inaction): The whole world quite literally was watching Monday night. Even the Voice of America was there to tell its global audience how, if citizens aren’t on their guard, rights can be trampled not just in developing countries…
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A hiccup or just a hick: Troubled as we are by David Mayfield’s continual references to “his” police and “his” city council, we’re forced to agree with one thing he and a host of others — including this newspaper — have been saying. As a community,…
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Mayfield reverses position, suspends Cody: Six and a half weeks after raids on the City Administrator Brogan Jones announced the suspension in an email Friday to city council members. Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel, whose home was raided along with the newspaper…
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Raid-related T-shirts available: Two journalism organizations are selling T-shirts, coffee mugs, stickers, and other swag after a raid of the Kansas Press Association is selling raid-related products featuring the Proceeds will go to its foundation.…
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LETTERS: Breaking mirror?: In reference to: “Marion mayor defends police in newspaper raid: ‘I’m not sure exactly what they did wrong”. I’ve watched Marion’s sordid drama unfold since the news broke of the newspaper raid more than a month ago. I’ve…
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2nd deputy in raid resigns: A second senior deputy sheriff involved in the Aug. 11 raid on the Marion County Record and the homes of its co-owners and Marion’s vice mayor has resigned. Sergeant Matt Regier, a Marion County deputy since December 2019,…
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UPDATED AGAIN: Mayor succeeds in blocking council discussion of chief: Despite city council members agreeing two weeks ago to discuss police chief Gideon Cody, Mayor David Mayfield took steps Friday to remove the topic from their agenda and was supported…
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LETTERS: Testing integrity: The world sees in Marion an abuse of power and likely a cover-up that may include destruction of evidence. Cleaning up after this scandal is testing the integrity of city hall. Their actions to date don’t inspire confidence…
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Cody found reporter's notes on KC misdeeds: Newly reviewed body camera video of the Aug. 11 raid on the The recordings also contain an admission by police that a totally unrelated document they supposedly were looking for had initially been obtained not…
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Embattled ambulance director resigns: Marion County ambulance director Curt Hasart, under threat of having his license taken away, has resigned effective Sept. 20. Hasart has been embattled for months after Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services…
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UPDATED: Lawyer intervenes to seek return of newspaper data secretly seized: Although Marion police and the sheriff’s office were ordered Aug. 16 to return items seized during illegal raids Aug. 11 at the Attorney Bernie Rhodes, who represents the [FULL…
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Wind farm commits $2 million to conserving prairie: Cattle cluster in a clump of trees, seeking shade, turbines from Sunflower Wind Farm towering over them in every direction. Just across 110th Rd., square bales of hay are stacked on top of each other…
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Cop licensing agency expects to investigate Cody, Womochil: Marion police chief Gideon Cody and former Burns police chief Joel Womochil will in all likelihood be investigated by a state agency that licenses police officers. Doug Schroeder, executive…
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Raid provokes legislative action: Kansas House minority leader Vic Miller and District 102 Rep. Jason Probst introduced legislation Tuesday stemming directly from an illegal Aug. 11 raid on the Marion County Record. They have asked for legislation to be…
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Yet another attack on democracy: The threat to free and open government posed by an illegal raid on our newsroom Aug. 11 pales in comparison to the threat posed Tuesday by a lawyer hired to try to extract the city from the legal mess the raid created. By…
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Cody found reporter's file on his misdeeds during newsroom raid: Newly reviewed body camera video of the Aug. 11 raid on the The recordings also contain an admission by police that a totally unrelated document they supposedly were looking for had…
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GUEST COLUMN: They finally fired the cannon: Bill’s wisdom and his command of writing for his small-town audience was an acquired taste for a young college graduate with aspirations for The New York Times or Chicago Tribune. It took months, but I finally…
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More details of Cody's background emerge: Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, who led the illegal raid Aug. 11 on the “He thinks he’s above everyone,” the longtime detective said. “I’ve known him since he was brand-spanking new. I worked with and for him.”…
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Cody accused of telling Newell to destroy evidence: A state investigation of the Aug. 11 raid on the Partly in response to this and to what she said were efforts by Cody to continue his aborted investigation and to publish a book about it, Newell told…
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Secretly seized data returned: After nearly a week of legal wrangling, evidence not initially listed among items seized in raids Aug. 11 on the Marion County Record office and the home of its owners finally was returned last week to Record attorney…
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Burns chief resigns after political upheaval: Citing recent events in the city, Burns police chief Joel Womochil resigned a week ago. His letter, which he gave to each city council member and read aloud during the Aug. 8 city council meeting, did not…
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2 special prosecutors named in newspaper raid: Not one but two special prosecutors have been appointed to investigate the Aug. 11 raid on the At the request of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, special agents John Zamora and Michael Struwe of the…
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Officials accused of 'conspiracy': In a sometimes angry confrontation at Monday night’s city council meeting, Marion officials, including Mayor David Mayfield, were accused of being part of a “conspiracy” targeting Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel and the Marion…
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Burns ex-chief faces 13 child exploitation charges: A Butler County jailer who resigned as Burns police chief eight days earlier was charged Aug. 16 in Butler County District Court with 13 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. According to the…
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Reporter sues police chief: Police Chief Gideon Cody came to the As Gruver read the search warrant, she told Cody she needed to call her publisher and editor, Eric Meyer. The police chief, who was ostensibly investigating another reporter’s computer use,…
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Teen buys 3 houses at tax sale: Three Peabody houses in the county tax sale Thursday were bought by a Cheney 18-year-old as his first foray into property ownership. Aidyn Escalante, who graduated high school this year and plans to attend Wichita State…
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EMS chief may lose license: Marion County ambulance director Curt Hasart remains under investigation by the state. Investigators weren’t able to present their evidence to the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services in August. But Joe House, director…
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Emails reveal rift before raid: Although shedding little light on a police raid Aug. 11 on the Mayfield targeted Herbel In an interview Thursday, City Administrator Brogan Jones confirmed what was obvious from the emails, which had been sent among Marion…
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Cody, Mayfield used private email: Documents released Monday under the Kansas Open Records Act reveal that Gideon Cody and Mayor David Mayfield corresponded via private rather than city email regarding Cody’s resignation as police chief. They also reveal…
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Chief denies wanting to help fund rival paper: When Record reporter Phyllis Zorn dropped by the Marion Police Department on a recent Monday, Chief Gideon Cody invited her back to his office. He told Zorn she should start a newspaper to compete with her…
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Cody sought massive list of charges before raid: Twenty pages of reports obtained Monday reveal an exhaustive list of charges that Gideon Cody supposedly was seeking in connection with his raid Aug. 11 on the Most of the charges were not mentioned in…
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Ex-chief's texts suggest greater role in raid by KBI, prosecutor: Newly obtained documents — which Marion refused to supply — are casting even greater doubt on the downplaying by Kansas Bureau of Investigation and County Attorney Joel Ensey of their…
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'Prom-posals' packed with creativity: Jacob Baldwin borrowed an old ring box from his mother, placed a plastic...
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Lawyer rejects records request: Jennifer Hill, the lawyer hired by the Marion’s insurance company who has taken over all Kansas Open Records Act requests sent to the city, sent Aware that former Police Chief Gideon Cody used his personal cell phone for…
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TV station tires of Marion's denials: Although myriad requests have been made under the Kansas Open Records Act for emails and texts sent between former Police Chief Gideon Cody and others involving an Aug. 11 raid on the Marion County Record offices and…
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LETTERS: Special prosecutor: I fully support Eric Meyer’s call for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle and distribute the Kansas Bureau of Investigation report on the raid on the The erosion of trust in Marion’s public officials will not be…
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Extensive wrangling needed to get secretly seized data: An agreement to have data that was not disclosed as being illegally copied from a Marion County Record computer turned over to the Record’s lawyer ultimately took four days and four lawyers to sign.…
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10-year-old a semi-regular at senior center: Zakai Sanders looks intently at sheet music as he plays a guitar his grandparents bought him when he was 3 years old. He’s “on stage” at Hillsboro Senior Center, a fraction of the age of other musicians…
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In memoriam: Marion County lost one of its most respected and beloved public servants when Treasurer Susan Berg succumbed last week to a long and courageous battle with cancer. For decades, Susan was a tireless worker, dedicated to improving the hometown…
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Meeting becomes shouting match: What started out as a quiet, 15-minute Marion City Council meeting turned into a longer shouting match Monday night, so heated that one of a dozen spectators not involved in the discussion interjected, “Stop acting like…
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LETTERS: Herbel explains: I feel it necessary to answer Mayor David Mayfield’s questions with a letter to the editor because he never lets me finish a sentence in council meetings. In regard to my letter to [budget consultant] Scot Loyd, Scot was the…
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State group recognizes art teacher: Goessel art teacher Kacie Schmidt was named Kansas Art Education Association’s 2023 Outstanding K-12 Art Educator of the Year. She received the award earlier this month at Emporia State University. An art teacher for…
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Feds add to ex-cop's charges: Federal child pornography charges have been filed — on top of charges in Butler County District Court — against former Marion County deputy, Burns police chief, and Butler County jailer Joel J. Womochil, 38. Womochil, El…
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Uber driver's car, airman's plans go up in flames: An Uber ride from Wichita took an unexpected turn Thursday when the driver’s vehicle caught on fire on US-56/77 near 210th Rd. Clark Jones had flown from Florida to Wichita and hired an Uber driver,…
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LETTERS: Ex-reporter's view: Darvin Markley nudged me to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at the top of a Marion City Council meeting in August. I politely stood my ground — just not literally. I stayed stubbornly seated at the press table from which…
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Out-bid, And now out for answers: Florence resident Joe Box made his unhappiness over being outbid by Mayor Bob Gayle at an Aug. 10 tax sale clear when he showed up Monday to speak to city council members. Gayle purchased five Florence properties at the…
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Hospital conflicts lessen: Progress on rebates to pharmacy: A month ago, St. Luke Hospital chief executive Alex Haines said he would look into contention between the hospital and Lanning Pharmacy over a federal drug program. At Tuesday’s board meeting,…
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Kids at center of 2 violent clashes: A question of who was taking care of an infant led to an Aug. 20 domestic dispute in a Marion apartment to become a melee at Casey’s in Marion that resulted in a woman being knocked unconscious and taken to St. Luke…
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Colorado agents appear to take over for KBI: Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents were in Marion on Tuesday asking questions related to Aug. 11 raids on UPDATE: Former One place agents went in Marion was the home of Ryan Newell, whose estranged wife,…
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LETTERS: Dumb and stupid: First and foremost, my deepest sympathies to your family for the loss of your mom. I always enjoyed talking with her. She kept everyone on their toes. Second, the travesty that’s gone on in Marion is so egregious that it boggles…
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Being thankful for Marion's mess: As we settle in to determine what we’re thankful for, let’s be thankful for our opportunity to reshape Marion’s government to avoid problems of the recent past. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat…
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We are looking for paintballers. Do you or anyone you know in the county enjoy paintballing? We would like to hear your story.
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LETTERS: Come on, Marion: On Aug. 12, my aunt and editor Eric Meyer’s mother, Joan, died of sudden cardiac arrest brought about by the stress of an illegal raid on her home. Joan Meyer was born and raised in Marion. She loved that town enough to raise…
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'63 grad goes on Honor Flight: Two years after graduating from Marion High School, Warren Kreutziger headed to the Army, and eventually, Vietnam. Kreutziger is a member of the class of 1963 and plans to attend its 65th reunion Saturday as part of Old…
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Budget passes on 3-2 vote: Marion resident Darvin Markley quizzed city council members about next year’s budget before they voted 3-2 to approve it. Mayor David Mayfield, Zach Collett, and Kevin Burkholder voted for the 2024 budget, which exceeds the…
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