Firefighters quickly donned breathing apparatus and dug down to the source of the leak, allowing the gas to safely vent into the air instead of pooling and following service lines into homes. “I saw a ...

We rarely hear government resolutions on New Year’s Day, but we often hear them on Election Day, when candidates perennially promise, like dandelions popping up each year, to increase efficiency and ...

County commissioners spent the bulk of an hour last week trying to come up with policies on how the county charges for special requests for wider culverts, additional road rock, and dust-settling sand ...

This Christmas, we all should consider giving democracy a gift it most richly deserves — our honest voices. Becoming engaged citizens is far more important than idle gestures like saluting the flag, ...

Votes cast by readers online and by email were tallied Sunday afternoon, and winners declared in the Record’s Show Your Christmas Spirit contest. Grand prize goes to a photo that serves as the cover ...

Sisters Pam Livingston and Dawna Blaes didn’t grow up in a family with an abundance of money. That’s why they started Florence Christmas Store, a tradition now three years strong, to help boost ...

We are all living, breathing, miraculous creatures called human beings — designed to be strong, capable, reasoning, and, hopefully, logical creatures. Sometimes I’m afraid we’ve mucked it up with too ...

Ninety percent of Americans celebrate Christmas, according to the Pew Research Center; that’s far more than the 66% who identify as Christian. And according to a 2018 survey, by the Centers for ...

Less than 36 hours after it was imposed, a boil order for Peabody drinking water was lifted Friday evening. Peabody residents had been advised Thursday morning to boil drinking water after a line ...

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Dreaming of a white Christmas? Wake up and feel the unseasonable warmth, from Marion County Record for Dec. 24, 2024 ...

The butterfly effect is a funny thing. After a water line broke Wednesday night in Peabody, city workers and a few workers sent by Hillsboro dispatched to the 7th and Vine St., where they worked until ...