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Marion News
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The Geography of Illicit Enterprise Marion, Ohio, sits at a pivotal juncture in the American Midwest, a city defined not merely by its industrial output or its claim as the “Popcorn Capital of the World,” but by its enduring role
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email Tempers finally boiled over at last night’s council committee meeting. What started as a routine update quickly turned into a heated debate over the city’s disastrous switch to the ADP payroll system. The “Swamp-Fox” team at Marion Watch has been
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email If the city of Marion wasn’t already having enough problems, now there’s this. Marion City Council voted 8-0 on 02/24/2025 to contract with Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the largest payroll software company in the world, to handle its payroll processing.
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The below letter was emailed to all sitting members of Marion City Council and Mayor Collins today. Relevant articles can be found in the “Relevant Articles” section following the letter contents. To the Current Members of Marion City Council: The
Ohio Regional
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The Town Before the Fall Galion was a railroad town that learned to live on less. By the 1980s the rails were no longer the engine of growth they had been; the city shifted toward a mixed industrial and service
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The Geography of Illicit Enterprise Marion, Ohio, sits at a pivotal juncture in the American Midwest, a city defined not merely by its industrial output or its claim as the “Popcorn Capital of the World,” but by its enduring role
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email GALION, OH — While city officials often paint a picture of “stability,” a newly released document from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) dated January 9, 2026, reveals a much more troubling reality for the citizens of Galion. This
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email A Special Report Marion Watch Investigates “There’s a Left Side, a Right Side—We Want the Truth!” Galion, Ohio’s public water system serves approximately 10,089 residents through 4,916 service connections. The system draws from surface water sources: the Rocky Fork of
National & International
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The United States military launched a surprise nighttime operation in Venezuela early Saturday, January 3, 2026, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The operation, which included heavy airstrikes across the capital city of Caracas, marks the most
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email On December 15, 2025, the President issued an executive order designating illicit fentanyl and its precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This historic action reclassifies the drug from a narcotic to a national security threat, authorizing the use
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The highly anticipated and politically charged release of thousands of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by the House Oversight Committee presented a massive and immediate problem: accessibility. The documents, totaling over 20,000 pages of email
0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email On the 1st of June 1979, 17-year-old Catherine Louise Conley went missing. Around 8:45 pm that evening, the resident of 217 Windsor Street departed her family home and walked to the Kroger grocery store formerly located on S Main Street