Category Archives: News

Emporia State University has announced three finalists for the position of Dean of the Teachers College. It has also announced the formal interview dates and times. *Dr. Matthew Capps, currently the d...

Noted children’s author Alastair Heim will be in Emporia on Saturday. Heim will be at the Emporia Public Library, and his visit to town has two different features. He will offer professional dev...

The race for Lyon County Commission Second District is getting more crowded. Doug Peck, a longtime Kansas Highway Patrol trooper, is now in the race. Your browser does not support the audio element. P...

US Senate candidate Barbara Bollier will make a stop in Emporia next week. Bollier will have a campaign stop at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1980 at 6:30 pm Monday. Bollier currently represents t...

Don Kellerman joined his Kansas City Chiefs in the win column this past Sunday as the 2020 winner of KVOE’s annual Watch the Chiefs promotion. Kellerman picked up his winnings, a 55-inch 4K LED ...

VFW Post 1980 will be hosting a chili cookoff contest Sunday at 2 PM. The contest costs $5 to enter, or if you’re just looking for a great meal it costs $5 to eat. There will be lots of food and...

The Lyon County Emergency Communications Center had a number of items up for approval during the Lyon County Commission’s weekly action session Thursday morning. LCECC Director Roxy Van Gundy so...

You could say Emporia Middle School student Holden Wilson felt out of this world when presented a chance to win the 2020 Lyon County Spelling Bee. Your browser does not support the audio element. Wils...

Kansas City Chiefs fans have had the time of their lives this week. First off, the Chiefs won the Super Bowl for the first time in 50 years on Sunday. And on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of fans &...

USD 251 North Lyon County has chosen its next superintendent. On Wednesday, the district’s Board of Education needed less than three minutes to select USD 114 Riverside Superintendent Robert Bla...