K-State Extension news service A Kansas State University horticulture expert says not all trees should be salvaged if they were damaged by storms and heavy winds that hit parts of Kansas recently.

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Commodities will be distributed at the Alta Vista Senior Center on June 18, beginning at 10 a.m.

You must be a resident of Wabaunsee County to receive the commodities.

Men’s prayer breakfast will be

6:30 a.m., Tuesday at the senior center. Drew Montgomery will be the speaker. All area men are welcome.

The Harvesters Community Food Network, with partner organization Alta Vista High View Church, will have a distribution of fresh, nutritious food to individuals and families in need on June 23.

The dist…

The Flint Hills Community Band will give a concert in Cottonwood Falls Swope Park in conjunction with a flag retirement ceremony at 8 p.m., on Sunday, June 14.

If anyone has a flag that needs to be ret…

We are thinking of our nearby neighbors in Herington and Woodbine who were pelted by Wednesday night’s tornadic storm. - One of two Washunga buttons in the Washunga Button hunts has been located. Cong…

Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative has been awarded funding for a pole and line replacement project as part of a statewide infrastructure investment announced by Gov. Laura Kelly.

The local project…

Cooper Blackledge did not set out at first to become a tattoo artist, but several parts of his life now seem to point in that direction.

Blackledge, a 2020 graduate of Council Grove High School, has op…

Pastor Reichart is happily married and the father of two adult children. He received a Master of Divinity at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN and has served in the ministry for 23 year…

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Patty Cunningham is awarded Trembly scholarship for Emporia State College…Susan Buchman, Burdick, places on spring semester honor roll at Fort Hays State College… Chris Bowen strikes out 10 when P…