Marion News

Residents who live in western Guadalupe County have formed an association to fight a nearby waste facility's ability to bring, store and transfer solid waste at its site.

It was a love story right out of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.' Or it was a predator taking sexual advantage of a naive 13-year-old girl.

For the 73rd year in a row, folks in Marion will be serving up a German favorite on the first Saturday of August.

A Marion resident's interest in selling a four-acre lot in a residential neighborhood for use as an impound lot has raised the ire of his neighbors - and caused 368 of them to sign a petition seeking to stop him.

Bus routes in the Marion Independent School District are about to get a little quieter and a lot less smoggy.

It had to happen, sooner or later. Work has begun to replace one of Marion's two flashing yellow caution lights on FM 78 with a fully signalized intersection at Center Street - the first in the history of the growing town located at the center of the county.

Lots of people garden, just like retired Marion ISD ag teacher Clyde Schultze does.

Commissioners unanimously said, 'not in our backyard' Tuesday to a permit application for a solid waste transfer station on Cibolo Creek in the county's extreme western end.

Police are investigating a pre-dawn shooting incident at a Marion party Saturday in which two Seguin men were wounded.

The not-so-long wait is over for area faculty and students. Today marked the return of children and teachers to all Seguin, Navarro, and Marion ISD campuses - as well as St.

Public health officials gave school districts the green light to reopen Tuesday afternoon, but it's not going to happen today.

Thousands more area school kids are now on swine flu vacation. All public schools in Guadalupe County are now closed, as the Seguin, Marion, and Navarro ISD's join Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City closing starting Friday and continuing all next week, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Comal Independent School District officials have closed the school district's alternative high school because an instructor who teaches GED classes in the same building tested positive for swine flu, a school spokesman said Monday.

On Aug. 25, 2007, a woman watched herself in a mirror as she was being violently raped by an angry and jealous boyfriend and resolved to do something about it - and to make sure no one else got victimized as she did.

NHRA officials announced today that San Antonio Raceway, in Marion, Texas, has joined the NHRA Member Track network.

It may be a battle, but the annual 'Battle of Santa Clara Creek' can hardly be described as a rivalry, at least according to one edition of the La Vernia High School yearbook.

District Attorney Heather Hollub's office began its second sexual assault trial in as many weeks Tuesday in a case in which a Marion man faces a possible life sentence over an alleged assault last August.

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A 74-year-old Marion woman was killed Friday morning after her car got hung up on railroad tracks and was struck by a train.

The Marion Bulldogs effectively put their game against Somerset out of reach with a six-run sixth inning on Tuesday, going on to defeat their rival Bulldogs 9-3. Mitchel Steffen pitched five innings and picked up his fourth win of the season.