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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Two girls’ basketball players and a wrestler were injured during sports events seven days apart. An 18-year-old wrestler from Center-Burden was injured Friday during a match at at Marion’s Sports and ...

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 ...

Officials of Peabody Main Street Association wrongly announced on social media last week that the first disbursement of a $1.5 million grant to rejuvenate downtown would have to be paid back. The ...

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 ...

“In Memoriam” listings are expanded paid obituaries, phrased as the family requests, and may include enhanced information or photographs that might not fit within free death notices.

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