Normal elevation...........1274.00 Current elevation...........1280.05

Former USD 417 and Council Grove High School students will return to Council Grove next weekend for the June 27 all-school reunion at the Morris County 4-H Building.

The event was advertised to anyone …

Pleasant weather greeted Council Grove parade-goers Saturday morning as they lined the 1.5-mile route to view the 100+ entries in the 2026 Washunga Days Parade.

The annual parade again drew many visito…

The regular meeting of the City of Cottonwood Falls was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Monday, June 1, 2026 in the Municipal Meeting Room.

Those present at the meeting were Mayor Buddy Sisson, Council M…

Each year on July 4, many Americans are in a celebratory mood as they prepare for all the fanfare involved with Independence Day festivities. But Independence Day 2026 stands to be extra special since…

1976

Donna Frese and Alan Essington earn scholastic honors at the University of Kansas…Dan Cosgrove and Lois Hager enroll at Kansas State University for the fall semester… Heidi Jernigan is triple winn…

NWS confirms strength of deadly tornado SEDGWICK COUNTY (JC POST) — The National Weather Service has confirmed that the tornado that struck northern Sedgwick County early Sunday morning, killing one p…

“Quixotry” (pronounced KWIK-suh-tree) (noun) A wild, visionary idea, unpredictable, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.

In 1976, a horrifying discovery wThere’s an orchestra made up entirely of ty…