Three movies will be shown Saturday at Hillsboro Public Library. At 1:30 p.m., a movie will tell the story of Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco. Her new city ...

Marion, Hillsboro, and Peabody all receive their drinking water from the reservoir, but treatment procedures are designed to eliminate threats from algae. A watch indicates that a harmful bloom is ...

Historic bricks in the 100 block of Elm St. were gently re-laid last week as part of reconstruction of curbs and guttering and replacement of a too-small drain pipe that leads to Luta Creek. The ...

A rural Peabody man who apparently was in a long-running feud with neighbors was arrested Saturday after going to their house, firing a gun into the air, and making threats. Curtis L. Findley, 33, ...

Services for Louis William Voelker, 85, who died June 11 at his home, were scheduled for 10 a.m. today at St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church in Pilsen. Burial will be in Pilsen cemetery. A former ...

In a dispute stemming from Marion withholding incriminating open records, a judge awarded more than $75,000 Thursday to the Marion County Record’s lawyer. District Judge Ben Sexton had ruled April 4 ...

By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. Monday was a busy day at the Hillsboro water plant. A hot, windless weekend had created an algae ...

Four routine traffic stops — the type that often result only in warnings — ended in four separate arrests within 28 hours this weekend for Hillsboro officer John Huebert. Going four for four on ...

Hillsboro’s senior center serves the most meals at its site, an average of 1,971 meals a month. Marion’s senior center provides friendship meals to an average of 514 seniors a month, pickup meals to ...

TC’s What-Not Shop is impossible to miss. Its bright-green facade, speckled with metallic lawn décor and fiery novelty signs (“Keep Calm and Return Fire”; “God is Great, Beer is Good, and People are ...

A farmhouse at 2267 Clover Rd. was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning after apparently being struck by lightning. The 1,458 square foot house, appraised at $73,000, was owned by Brenda Soyez, who ...

Hillsboro has nine lift stations, which collect sewage and pump it to wastewater treatment plants. The industrial lift station on Industrial Rd. between 200th and 190th Rds. will receive a new pump, ...