Author Archives: Chuck Samples

Last week, the Lyon County Commission gave its blessing for the Emergency Management Department to take advantage of a federal matching grant to both purchase and distribute weather alert radios. Plan...

Emporia State University is proclaiming a Year of Celebration. The university says it is now on a "positive path forward" after lengthy trends of declining enrollment, increasing popularity of distanc...

There will be no meeting for the Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas Board of Directors this week. The board was tentatively set to meet Friday morning, but Board Chair Jeff Willia...

There is a new property in the Emporia Land Bank's inventory after the Lyon County tax foreclosure sale Tuesday evening. The Land Bank purchased a vacant lot at 301 Sunnyslope, adding to properties it...

So far this week, and even going back to this past weekend, none of the marginal risk areas issued by the Storm Prediction Center have led to any actual severe weather for area counties. More marginal...

Federal education funds for student learning, student services and educator development are now on hold for Kansas schools. Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson says the US Department of Educati...

With track crossing work now done in and around Neosho Rapids, most of Emporia's track crossings will see work over the next week-plus. Burlington Northern Santa Fe plans to start work on the Weaver S...

Part of Kansas Highway 177 in Chase County is now blocked for repairs. K-177 is closed on the north side of Strong City -- specifically from Fourth Street to US Highway 50. The Chase County Sheriff's ...

As construction crews get rolling on the western edge of Emporia's Southeast Transmission waterline project, a part of eastern Emporia had to deal with a water line break Tuesday. Crews responded to t...

Work continues to finish a new maintenance facility at the Flint Hills Technical College main campus. On KVOE's Tech Talk interview Tuesday, President Caron Daugherty says construction is part of the ...