Marion County Veterans Service Officer Dewey Blansett is offering tips to help make signing up for VA benefits easier for both the veterans and their spouses.
When it is time to apply for the benefits to speed up the process the VA will need to see:
The Columbia School District has scheduled its public hearing on the proposed budget for the 2020 fiscal year for June 25.
The school board is proposing keeping the property tax rate at 55 mills.
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What motivates you to garden? Unconsciously, everything we do out there involves “why” and reveals a bit of our philosophy.
The following land transactions were filed in Marion County Chancery Court during the week ending June 7:
Monday, June 3
• Jane B. Barefoot, Trustee of Barefoot Living Trust, to William Chadwic Barefoot, Jason Troy Barefoot and Tracy Alexander Barefoot
Tuesday, June 4
A grand jury has indicted a 19-year-old Kokomo man for allegedly burning a man by throwing gasoline on him and igniting him using a cigarette lighter.
Preston A. Fortenberry is charged with aggravated assault – extreme indifference. If found guilty, he faces one to 20 years in prison.
Relatives of one of Marion County’s first settlers came from North Carolina, Kentucky and Florida as well as Mississippi Saturday to dedicate the recently re-discovered cemetery where he’s buried.
Columbia man charged with murder
A Columbia man has been charged with first-degree murder after a gunfight broke out in Popetown in the early hours Tuesday morning.
American Legion Post 90 and the Cub Scouts are teaming together to properly retired tattered U.S. flags.
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Monday, June 3
The Marion County Republican Party and the Marion County Republican Women are teaming up to present a “Meet the Candidate” forum.
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