September 2025
Annual KWEC Butterfly Festival set for Sept. 20
HAYS, Kan. – The Kansas Wetlands Education Center’s 12th annual Butterfly Festival will be held on Saturday, September 20, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Six-man football in Kansas is keeping the Friday night lights on for rural towns
INGALLS, Kansas — On the edge of town next to the railroad tracks, the sound of pads crunch and whistles echo. A train chugs by toward the grain elevator that backdrops the football field that features only a handful of players.
Want tickets to Kansas City's World Cup games? They're going on sale this week
More than 650,000 soccer fans are expected to descend on Kansas City next summer for the FIFA World Cup 26. And starting this week, they’ll be able to purchase tickets.
9/11 Reflections, 24 Years Later
Time stood still at 8:46 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, and I can still remember every single moment that followed.
Sept 13th Pedal Patrol in the Park
A public safety event, “Pedal Patrol in the Park,” will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kansas milo crop 'tremendous' — but low prices, disappearing markets jeopardize sales
TOPEKA — Kim Barnes scoured 52 years of contacts in his Rolodex to find buyers for 1.7 million bushels of last year’s grain sorghum crop after a cut in federal programs and international trade left the market in chaos.
A Kansas student reported her coach for harassment and touching. School leaders kept it quiet.
COLDWATER — After the father of a small-town, southwest Kansas high school junior reported his daughter was the victim of sexual harassment and unwanted touching by her golf coach, he met with the coach and principal to lay out the teenager’s concerns and disgust. By the end of that meeting in May, the father said, the three men seemed to have an understanding that the coach violated policy — if not the law — when he made a stunning comment to the girl during golf practice: He told her to grip a club like it was a penis.
Sept 9th & 16th County Commission Meetings in City Adm Center Basement
According to Ellis County Administrator Darin Myers, the restoration of the County Administrative Center Basement will be sufficiently restored in time for the Sept. 9th & Sept. 16th Meetings to be held in County Commission Chamber.
Ellis County Library Board Vacancy
Last week, Ellis County Commissioners called for the public’s help in filling a vacancy on the Ellis County Library Board. In late 2024, a five – member County Library Board was appointed after voters’ approval of the creation of a County Library.