Category Archives: News
Last minute filers pay a visit to Emporia Post Office ahead of midnight tax deadline
Monday is tax day and last minute filers lined up at the Emporia Post Office ahead of the official filing deadline. For many individuals, waiting till the last minute is not always a prefered method w...
Apr 15, 2019
Kansas Gas urges calls to 811 as National Safe Digging Month continues
April is National and Kansas Safe Digging Month, and Kansas Gas Service is among the utilities working hard to get the message out about being safe when you plan your below-ground projects. Manager of...
Apr 15, 2019
Laps 4 Landon again generating funds for cystic fibrosis research
Laps 4 Landon is almost here. The annual fundraiser for cystic fibrosis will once again be held at Welch Stadium on Tuesday. The event was originally named for Landon Dody, a 12-year-old who was diagn...
Apr 15, 2019
Pre-registration taking place for USD 253 kindergarteners this week
Kindergarten pre-registration is taking place this week for Emporia Public Schools. Community Relations Director Lyndel Landgren says pre-registration will give kindergarteners and their families a se...
Apr 15, 2019
Guillen set for sentencing Tuesday in Lyon County District Court
Sentencing is coming Tuesday for one of five defendants in a drug distribution case which developed last fall. Luis Guillen pleaded to a charge of drug possession with intent to distribute in February...
Apr 15, 2019
Convicted Lyon County child sex abuse suspect seeking to withdraw plea
A motions hearing is slated for Tuesday afternoon in the case of a man who originally pleaded to child sex crimes two years ago but now wants to change his plea. Jason Wayne Harden had reached a plea ...
Apr 15, 2019
Lyon County Most Wanted suspect arrested, second suspect turns himself in
The list of suspects on Lyon County’s Most Wanted list has shrunk. Perry Alan Myers was recently captured. He had been posted on the list for two suspected violations of the Kansas Offender Regi...
Apr 15, 2019
UPDATE: Southbound traffic briefly blocked after two semis collide in KTA work zone near Emporia
Details are pending after a semi crash that briefly closed down southbound traffic on the Kansas Turnpike near Emporia on Monday. Two southbound semis collided in a construction zone between mile mark...
Apr 15, 2019
Heartwarming performance at sensory-friendly movie, concert at Granada Theatre
Sunday was a very musical day for the audience at the sensory-friendly showing of The Greatest Showman. The sensory-friendly showing is a production of the movie The Greatest Showman that takes in the...
Apr 14, 2019
Kids learn about their environment at Party for the Planet
The David Traylor Zoo was packed with kids learning all about the importance of the planet at the Party for the Planet event. The Party for the Planet was an earth day celebration done by the David Tr...
Apr 14, 2019
