Pending petition validation and certification by the Marion County Board of Elections on February 17th, here are your Republican candidates for Marion County Commissioner. One of these four individuals will be elected to replace current commissioner Mark Davis, who did not file to run for re-election, and will serve alongside commissioners Andy Appelfeller and Kevin […]
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Takeaways from tonight’s Marion City Council meeting: 1) The enhanced cybersecurity ordinance passed unanimously. Among other things, the City’s IT manager is supposed to be implementing a new ticketing system for all work orders. Amazingly this wasn’t being done. 2) Ordinance authorizing the Auditor or the Budget Director to contract with a third party to […]
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WHO’S TO BLAME? Following a well-publicized, scandalous two-year legal ordeal, the people of the city of Marion are engaged in the usual finger pointing that follows in the wake of such incidents. Despite losing his job and suffering a severe loss of reputation in the community, former Democratic City Councilman Ayers Ratliff was found not […]
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Kent Halloran, who has resided in the city of Marion since 2022 and recently ran an unsuccessful campaign as a write-in candidate for one of the at-large positions on Marion City Council, has announced that he is running in the Democratic primary for the 86th District State Representative position currently held by Republican Tracy Richardson. […]
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Within a year of the disappearance and murder of 17-year-old Catherine Conley in 1979, Marion was shocked by the disappearance and probable murder of 15-year-old Lori Ann Robinson. As with the murder of Conley, the late-Dana Slane, who was recently indicted by a Grand Jury in Morrow County for her murder, had a close connection […]
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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 near the intersection with Columbia Street, in order to purchase formula for her six-month-old baby […]