Author Archives: Chuck Samples

The Flint Hills Technical College Foundation has a busy period ahead between now and the end of the spring semester. On the list of events is the fourth annual Prairie Fire Award celebration. On KVOE'...

Record high temperatures are no longer in our forecast -- at least for the foreseeable future. Above-normal temperatures are. Monday's high of 79 degrees broke a 50-year-old record for Emporia. The pr...

USD 251 North Lyon County's ongoing discussions about new facilities will add another layer Wednesday. Board members will discuss the process for having a construction manager at-risk as part of the o...

Grass fire season is unofficially underway across Kansas, and the state is marking Wildfire Awareness Week this week. The Kansas Forest Service says more than 90 percent of wildfires across the state ...

Production has resumed to a degree after Monday's fire inside Emporia's hostess plant. JM Smucker Director of External Communications Frank Cirillo hasn't offered specifics, but he says some productio...

Avian influenza is still affecting operations at the David Traylor Zoo, but it's not affecting any of the birds. A month ago, the zoo moved its trumpeter swans, nene geese, Cape Barren goose, snow gee...

The Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas Board of Directors is meeting this week. The agenda for Friday's meeting includes approval of the agency's open records policy, comments fro...

What's the perceived climate for USD 253 Emporia? Board of Education members will get the results of a special survey as part of their meeting this week. The survey, conducted through a partnership wi...

There's a chance you may not be paying property taxes by 2028 if a bill in the Kansas Senate gets passed and then signed by Governor Laura Kelly. That won't get you from paying the state in another wa...

Now that the snow from late last month is largely gone, expect fire danger to be a weather-related concern in the short term. Fire danger will be very high across the area and most of Kansas, thanks t...