Lifestyles

MARSHALL — Marshall Municipal Utilities has announced Jarad Muller as its “Employee of the Quarter” for the quarter ending Sept. 30.  In nominating Muller, Electric Production Director Carl Crawford highlighted Muller’s role as assistant director in the department. ...

“Dr. Uhrig told me, ‘Well, Jack, you beat the odds,’” said 84-year-old Jack Lenz of Marshall. Two days earlier, after nearly three years and 85 different treatments, he was told he was cancer free. Cancer free. Sweet words for a man who described his experience with the Fitzgibbon Community Cancer Center as “a saga in two parts.”...

Roughly 14 years ago, there was a Papillon dog alone and scared in a puppy mill unable to go anywhere or to ever stop breeding. Then one day, all of that changed when the Papillon was rescued and taken in by a sweet and kind woman from Slater. This is the story of Poppy the Papillon. Poppy's beloved owner, Lucy Brandon of Slater, adopted her when she was 5 years old...

On Christmas Eve 2018, as she was enjoying the holiday with her husband and two teenaged children, Cassie Painter was trying not to think about the three words that would forever change her. You have cancer. But Cassie is known as a perpetually positive person...

Diabetes mellitus is a disease affecting 30.3 million Americans, and the toll it takes on healthcare as a whole is astronomical. Uncontrolled diabetes leads to many significant health problems, from kidney disease, to stroke, to heart disease and even some cancers. In Saline County, almost 2,000 individuals are living with the disease...

MARSHALL — Women who receive mammography services at Fitzgibbon Hospital can be confident they are receiving the highest level of image quality and safety in their examinations, as the hospital recently was awarded accreditation for an additional three years by the American College of Radiology (ACR)...

MARSHALL — Baby-Friendly USA, Inc., the United States authority for the implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) recently announced that Fitzgibbon Hospital has received prestigious international recognition as a Re-Designated Baby-Friendly birth facility...

Events around the world have a lasting effect on people at home, including our children. We are inundated with reports of homicides, natural disasters, accidents and other tragedies in our 24-hour news cycle, and that is driven even deeper by our constant connection to numerous social media platforms. ...