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11/24/2025

Casey's fuel reopening is still weeks away
The fuel station at Casey’s General Store is still going through a complete overhaul, including news pumps after the replacement of steel fuel tanks.
The project was supposed to take five weeks, but that time frame has since doubled.
“We’re upgrading our fuel equipment to better serve our guests, which includes installing new tanks, fuel lines, and dispensers for improved long-term service and reliability,” said Chase Russell with Casey’s corporate office.

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November 24, 2025 at 12:35PM

11/24/2025

Kansas gifts available
Gifts made in Kansas by Kansans are featured on the Kansas Sampler website at kansassampler.org.
More than 150 businesses are represented.
The annual online shopping list of Kansas products is put together by the non-profit Kansas Sampler Foundation, which has as its missing preserving and sustain rural culture.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:56AM

11/24/2025

I"m thankful for...
My family. My family is very nice. My family gives me a lot of gifts. I am also thankful for my pet. My dog’s name is Roscoe. I am also thankful for food and water.”
— Owen
My friends. I love to play soccer with my friends. I love when my friends play with me. I am thankful for my family. I am glad that I have a family.”
— Levi c
Holles my puppy because he plays with me. I am also thankful for earth because I live on earth. I’m thankful for mom and dad because thay feed me.”
—Emmett

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November 24, 2025 at 12:04PM

11/24/2025

Marion's Christmas kickoff this weekend
Holly Jolly Christmas will return for its sixth year this weekend. The event, always the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, will have activities from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., several of them new.
Tammy Ensey, co-owner of the Historic Elgin Hotel, and former economic development director Randy Collett started the event in 2019.
“Both of us enjoyed these events in other small communities,” Ensey said. “We needed to start small.”

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November 24, 2025 at 11:52AM

11/24/2025

Driver to help pay for wall
No charges are planned against an 18-year-old Marion resident who crashed his pickup into a limestone wall Halloween night and then fled. His insurance, however, will help pay for repairs.
Damien Michael Thouvenell was exceeding the speed limit when his eastbound pickup hit a slick patch of smashed hedge apples that had been deposited on the street as a Halloween prank, according to an accident report released Friday.
Thouvenell’s 2008 Chevrolet C2500 slid onto a Main St. sidewalk east of Locust St. at 12:30 a.m. Nov. 1. Its rear hitch hit the wall first. The pickup then swung around and hit the wall again, this time with the front of its driver’s side.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:51AM

11/24/2025

Who are Peabody's write-in winners? Penner brings a younger perspective to the council
When there was a movement to elect two Peabody council members who were not on the ballot, Bailey Penner assumed his role would be as an adviser in the process.
After weeks of the Peabody Forward Movement hoping for the city council to have a new set of ideas, members asked Penner, 25, and Andy Romine, 46, to run as a team.
It was, however, too late to get them on the ballot.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:50AM

11/24/2025

LETTERS: Politicizing courts
In last week’s article about Ty Masterson, I noticed that he failed to mention a cushy job provided for him by the Koch Collaborative as director of GoCreate at Wichita State University after his bankruptcy.
This job paid him $155,250 in 2024 plus a raise from $44,000 to $88,000 for House and Senate members in Topeka.
Masterson is in the pocket of both the Koch Foundation and the Heritage Foundation, which seek to influence Kansas and federal policies to favor them.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:50AM

11/24/2025

CORRECTIONS: Vacated alley, weight limits
Because of outdated records, since updated, on the county’s online property database, ownership of Todd Winters’ property on Tanglewood St. property was incorrectly reported in some editions last week, which also failed to reflect that the next Marion City Council meeting would be delayed from a Monday to a Tuesday so as not to conflict with a school event

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November 24, 2025 at 11:49AM

11/24/2025

How great we were (but aren't anymore?)
One of the duties I sadly inherited but happily undertake is selecting items for each week’s Memories column in the paper. I don’t do it with the same vigor or insight as did my mother, who would have turned 100 this year. Truth is, I occasionally cheat, selecting things she previously identified as newsworthy when she was running the column, as she did up until age 98.
Still, I revel — as she did, and you should — in the wonderful history of Marion and Marion County — surely something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving week.
Unfortunately, the more you look at Memories, the more you realize how much we’re missing these days. Rarely did a week go by — even as recently as 15 or 30 years ago — without some major civic event. At key points in our past, our community served not as some out-of-the-way backwater but at the very center of the mainstream, creating much of the current that ran through the body politic.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:48AM

11/24/2025

Schools already limit cell phones
A move by legislators to prohibit students from using cell phones during the school day has upset some students. But Marion High School and Middle School principals say the proposal wouldn’t have much impact.
“MMS already has a policy that students are not allowed to have cell phones on throughoutthe day,” middle school principal Kelsey Metro said. “Our policy is ‘off and away throughout the day.’ ”
The only exception is if students become sick and need to reach parents. School approval still would be needed. During a tragedy, the school would prefer that first responders be notified before parents. Having parents rush to the school could impede response time, Metro said.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:48AM

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