Author Archives: Chuck Samples
Emporia Senior Center announces event cancellations
The Emporia Senior Center has announced a pair of event cancellations for this week. Bingo for Tuesday night has been canceled along with Wednesday's fundraising lunch. Reasons for these cancellations...
Aug 10, 2021 KVOE News file photo.
Traffic now moving past site of water main break in central Emporia
Preliminary work has finished after a water main break in central Emporia on Monday night. Issues at Ninth and West developed around 10 pm after a split developed in an eight-foot section of water lin...
Aug 09, 2021 Emporia Public Works crews begin excavating around the site of a water main break at Ninth and West early Tuesday. Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Heat advisories now posted to 8 pm Wednesday areawide
Heat advisories are now effective to Wednesday evening areawide. Earlier Tuesday, the National Weather Service extended heat advisories for Chase and Morris counties, thus matching an existing advisor...
Aug 09, 2021 National Weather Service graphic.
Cottonwood Falls teen suffers suspected minor injuries after getting hit by SUV
A Cottonwood Falls teenager was hit by an SUV on Monday but only suffered apparently minor injuries as a result. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 13-year-old Anders Joy was in the middle of a bridge on ...
Aug 09, 2021 KVOE News file photo.
CORONAVIRUS: Flint Hills Technical College to require masks on campus beginning Tuesday
Flint Hills Technical College spent part of its monthly meeting Monday adjusting its coronavirus procedures for the coming fall term. Masks are going from optional to mandatory for students, faculty, ...
Aug 09, 2021 KVOE News file photo.
CORONAVIRUS: Lyon County Public Health notes caseload increase at church camps since mid-July
Lyon County Public Health Incident Commander Renee Hively tells KVOE News there has been an increase in COVID-19 cases related to public gatherings, but not in the category you might expect: church ca...
Aug 09, 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention graphic.
CORONAVIRUS: Drive-thru vaccination effort to precede mobile food pantry at Abundant Harvest
Residents attending Tuesday's mobile food pantry at Abundant Harvest can have multiple needs met at the same location, if not exactly at the same time. Besides getting food, they can also get the COVI...
Aug 09, 2021 With a long line expected at Abundant Harvest's mobile food pantry Tuesday, newman Regional Health and the #VaxToNormal Committee will use that opportunity to provide free COVID-19 vaccinations to anybody in the line starting at 11 am. KVOE News file photo.
Moran, Marshall chide spending in federal infrastructure, budget bills
Congress may well approve a massive infrastructure bill before starting work on the overall budget. That doesn't mean Kansas Republicans like either option. The infrastructure bill alone includes $110...
Aug 09, 2021 KVOE News file photo.
CORONAVIRUS: Defense Department plans to make vaccines mandatory; National Guard currently not impacted
The US Department of Defense is planning to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all military service personnel by mid-September -- possibly in time for the Food and Drug Administration to give full l...
Aug 09, 2021 KVOE News file photo.
CORONAVIRUS: Lyon County's new, active case numbers revert to January levels
Lyon County's latest COVID-19 update resembled numbers last seen in January for two key categories. Lyon County Public Health announced 39 new cases, the largest period-to-period increase since 58 cas...
Aug 09, 2021 Lyon County Public Health graphic.
