Sarah Kessinger

Marysville’s downtown was the focus of a significant step forward Monday as Marysville City Council signed a 50-year contract with Frontier Development Group, Manhattan, to renovate ground-floor business spaces and create housing in the upper stories of the commercial buildings in the historic Koester Block on Broadway.

Community Memorial Healthcare began to notify obstetrics patients this week that the hospital would not deliver babies after Dec. 31 while the facility considers the future of its labor and delivery services.

Over the past decade, Jean and Pat Caffrey, Lillis, have accompanied veterans on multiple flights to Washington, D.C., as part of the Kansas Honor Flight program.

Community Memorial Healthcare is seeking a physician to serve the Blue Rapids clinic after local doctor Haley Lowell recently announced plans to leave the position, according to CMH administrator Curtis Hawkinson.

Matt Godinez, assistant secretary of the Kansas Department of Commerce, spent the afternoon in Marysville earlier this fall learning about the community’s history, its unique successes and its hopes for the future.

Marysville Police Chief Matt Simpson has been hired as the special agent in charge of the criminal division in the Kansas attorney general’s office.

“We may not know them all, but we owe them all,” said master of ceremonies Elle Schoenberger, a Marysville High School student, at Monday’s Veterans Day observance in the school’s

Marshall County Clerk Sandy Wilson said Thursday that 164 provisional ballots remained to be reviewed from Tuesday’s general election.

Actors young and old bring merry old England to the stage set to a lively musical score at three performances of the classic tale “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” at

Every fall a set of hay bales transforms into something humorous along West River Road several miles southwest of Marysville.