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Online walkthroughs, budget and facility usage committee main focuses of USD 253 Emporia Board of Education Wednesday evening
USD 253 Emporia will be expanding the use of its relatively new online walkthrough tool this year. Observe 4 Success is an online resource that provides district and building administrators with a qui...
Aug 28, 2024 Photo by Tagan Trahoon/KVOE News
Q&A With Trey moved to Municipal Courtroom Wednesday
Wednesday night's Q&A With Trey is moving locations. The Q&A session with Emporia City Manager Trey Cocking will now be held in the Municipal Courtroom in the bottom of White Auditorium. The m...
Aug 28, 2024 Emporia City Manager Trey Cocking. Photo by Tagan Trahoon/KVOE News
Marysville man accepts involuntary manslaughter plea after fatal wreck near Emporia in April 2023
There will be no trial in a Lyon County vehicular murder case stemming from a crash near Emporia in April 2023. That's because the defendant, Travis Duane Edwards, accepted a plea agreement as part of...
Aug 28, 2024 Travis Edwards. Lyon County Jail photo.
Little Lyons readies for Sept. 3 start of operations with ribbon-cutting ceremony, open house
There was a celebratory atmosphere at the Little Lyons Childcare on Tuesday. Activities don't officially start for another week, but there was a ribbon-cutting and open house for interested parents an...
Aug 28, 2024 Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Preliminary hearing Sept. 12 for Overland Park man accused in Lyon County mistreatment, theft case
A preliminary hearing is planned next month for an Overland Park man accused of mistreating a dependent adult or elder person. Juan Diego Romero-Hernandez was arrested in late July and charged with on...
Aug 28, 2024 Juan Hernandez. Lyon County Jail photo.
Emporia aggravated battery defendant set for arraignment
Pretrial and arraingment is coming in early October for an Emporia man accused of aggravated battery. Emanul Cornejo was set for arraignment Oct. 2 as part of a hearing this week. Cornejo faces charge...
Aug 28, 2024 Emanul Cornejo. Lyon County Jail photo.
Muhlig: Start of 2024 classes going smoothly for USD 252 Southern Lyon County
So far, so good as USD 252 Southern Lyon County begins classes this month. Superintendent Ryan Muhlig is into his second year as the district's leader, and he says things are going smoothly as he cont...
Aug 28, 2024 Ryan Muhlig. USD 252 Southern Lyon County photo.
More strategic planning conversations ahead for NRH Board of Trustees on Wednesday
More conversations about strategic partnerships are ahead for the Newman Regional Health Board of Trustees. The board meets Wednesday and will close the meeting with an executive session on the topic....
Aug 28, 2024 KVOE News file photo.
County commissioners to consider approval of 2025 budget during regular action meeting Thursday
Lyon County Commissioners will consider final action on the 2025 budget when they convene for their regular action meeting Thursday morning. Commissioners have a public hearing scheduled for 10 am on ...
Aug 27, 2024 Lyon County commissioners (from left) Rollie Martin, Ken Duft, Doug Peck. KVOE News file photo.
Former Lyon County Commissioner Wayne "Jackie" Leffler passes Sunday
Former Lyon County Commissioner Wayne "Jackie" Leffler has passed away. Leffler passed Sunday at Emporia's Presbyterian Manor at the age of 93. A four-term commissioner in Lyon County, Leffler, a nati...
Aug 27, 2024 Wayne "Jackie" Leffler. Photo courtesy of Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
