Hillsboro firefighters were kept busy Labor Day weekend receiving two dispatches for boats stranded at Marion Reservoir. The first dispatch at around 1:25 p.m. Friday was canceled because another ...

Emily Frantz will breathe a sigh of relief when six blocks of Main St. in Hillsboro close from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for Arts and Crafts Fair. Days leading up to the annual event are hectic. As ...

“More-with-Less” arose from anxieties of the early 1970s. Graphic news coverage of famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia brought a world food crisis into American living rooms. At the time, U.S. food ...

The same day a boil-water order for Burns was lifted Saturday after three days, a boil order for Rural Water District No. 1 was imposed and remained in effect Tuesday night. Both advisories followed ...

Fallen trees lay along, and sometimes on, the trail. Spider webs stretched across the path, forcing me to duck, weave, and occasionally stop altogether. Dodging them became almost an aerobic exercise ...

As much as people hate them, it’s amazing how often they use them. Data centers have become the landfills of the 2020s. We screa ...

But in this class, a tortilla is not just a tortilla. It’s a life lesson for students in negotiating adult life: feeding themselves, spending wisely, working with other people, learning from mistakes, ...

Relatives are requesting a card shower for the 50th wedding anniversary of Brian and Nancy (Voth) Stucky of Goessel. They were married Oct. 9, 1976, at Goessel. He retired in 2013 as an art and ...

Marion: Creating out of wood. By OWEN PROTHRO. Staff writer. When Tom Neff’s granddaughter asked him to make her a wooden bowl, he didn’t think it would lead to nearly 40 more ...

It’s the kind of chance encounter that can happen in a small-town coffee shop, where a cup of coffee can lead to a familiar face or a new friendship. For Sheryl Richert, coffee shops are places where ...

Marion’s ‘something’ Historic hotel is a discovered destination for travelers. By CLARA GERMANI. Staff writer. On a pink late afternoon in April, I drove through budding whe ...

I finally met, in person, the Mennonite community that has been quietly present in my kitchen for more than 30 years. In the book, Longacre wrote, “Put dismal thoughts aside … because this book is not ...