Voters in Morris County overwhelmingly rejected the proposed $31.5 million USD 417 school bond during the special election held Tuesday, March 3. According to the final election summary, 3,630 registered voters were eligible to vote, with 1,725 ballots cast, representing a 47.52 percent voter turnout.
Drivers traveling south of Council Grove are being urged to carefully follow posted detour signs after several motorists became stuck Tuesday while attempting to bypass the official route around the K-177 construction zone. The Kansas Department of Transportation closed a section of K-177 two days ago for reconstruction, with the closure expected to remain in place until approximately mid-September. Since the closure began, some drivers have ignored the official detour and attempted to find alternate routes on nearby minimum- maintenance roads. Reports began coming in Tuesday that several vehicles had become stuck in muddy conditions south of Council Grove.
The Emporia Management Unit, Chase, Lyon, Osage, and Morris County Conservation Districts, will host a Local Working Group meeting on March 18, at 623 E. Main St in Council Grove.
Council Grove has been nominated as one of the Top 10 Best Small Towns in the Midwest in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards.
March 2, 2026, marked the centennial of the robbery of the Farmers & Drovers Bank by the Fleagle gang. Jake and Ralph Fleagle, of rural Garden City, together with other gang members robbed many banks in Kansas, California, and other states during the 1920s. On March 2, 1926, while one member of the gang waited in a running, blue, Buick touring car on Neosho Street aside the Farmers & Drovers Bank, two unmasked gang members entered the bank. (At that time the bank was located only in the building at the corner of the block.)
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