On Friday morning, I learned from a city employee and multiple other sources that Council Grove Police Chief Shawn Wangerin had resigned. I reached out to Wangerin via personal message seeking comment for the Council Grove Republican, and he responded, “I’m not going anywhere.”
This is part 1 of a five-part series based on a Kansas Court of Appeals ruling involving Council Grove City Lake and describes the “big picture.”
Jacob is a student in Destiny Barnett’s third grade class. His favorite color is orange. Jacob says the best gift he has ever received is a life-size Spider-Man motorcycle. He likes eating cheeseballs and playing Bloons TD 6 on the weekends. If he had a superpower it would be the power to change superpowers.
Just 10 miles southeast of Council Grove sits the small community of Dunlap, a place many area residents have passed through without a second thought. Today, it is home to only a few dozen people. But in the late 1800s, Dunlap was something much more, a thriving settlement built by African Americans who came to Kansas seeking a better life.
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