By Gary Meyer, TME

In the tiny town of Marion Kansas, is a tiny weekly newspaper—much like Frazier Park’s The Mountain Enterprise—with a tiny staff…and an enormous sense of pride and spirit.

On August 11, the Marion Police Department …(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Police Chief Gideon Cody (center) observes as his officers raid The Marion County Record newspaper office in Kansas on Friday, Aug. 11

Freedom may prevail after a tense, days-long standoff

Flowers covered the front of The Marion County Record after the loss of its matriarch, Joan Meyer

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This is part of the August 25, 2023 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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