Another function of emergency management is to assist fire departments, law enforcement, and emergency medical services. When the county needs to issue a disaster declaration, emergency management ...

On a small lake, the wakes don’t have space to dissipate before hitting shore. In areas where water is 8 to 10 feet deep, they also disturb sediment on the bottom, releasing nutrients like phosphorous ...

In most municipalities, council members begin budget deliberations in May, meeting with department heads to go over budget requests and gradually cobble together a proposed budget. For the third year ...

When her husband saw where she went, he sped past the sheriff’s office and turned west on Main St., where he nearly crashed into other cars. He then drove over railroad tracks on the west edge of town ...

“They’re going to try the chip-seal oil to see if that will adhere,” county administrator Tina Spencer told commissioners. “If it doesn’t adhere, then they’ll have to clean everything out and switch ...

Neavaeh R. Britton, 16, and Shaylinn M. Vogt, 21, were in a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox owned by Vogt’s grandmother, Karlene J. Vogt, when Britton ran off a gravel road at 10:30 p.m. Aug. 11 on a curve at ...

A plastic bag discovered around noon Aug. 12 on the ground in the Casey’s General Store parking lot in Marion contained what police suspect were illegal drugs. Police Chief Aaron Slater said the bag ...

There is no shortage of fascinating subjects out here: lawsuits, festivals, crooked cops, blue-green algae, symphonies, ICE kidnappings, wind farms, and Tim McVeigh. My time in Marion has made me a ...

Married Aug. 20, 1960 at St. Marks Catholic Church in Marion, Dale and Tootsie Snelling will celebrate their 65th anniversary with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 30 at Holy Family Activity Center.

Services for Charles Thomas Bell, 86, who died Aug. 12 at Ottawa County Health Center in Minneapolis, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, Minneapolis. Born Feb. 11, 1939, in Denver, ...

A graveside service for Naomi F. Maxwell, 90, who died Aug. 3 at St. Luke Living Center, Marion, will be 11 a.m. Aug. 27, at Americus Cemetery in Americus. Born March 22, 1935, in Emporia to Peter and ...

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