Scheduling for Marshall County Agency on Aging commodity distribution has changed. Previously all sites in the county were open Thursdays. This month, the schedule changes to a two day event, with Home City, Beattie, Oketo, Herkimer, Bremen, and Marysville resident distribution on Wednesday, April 3 from 1-4 at the Helvering Center in Marysville. Sites in Summerfield, Axtell, Vermillion, Frankfort, Blue ... Read More »
Applications are being taken for the Tuttle Creek Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy Cost Share Program. It is for farmers and livestock producers in Marshall and Washington Counties within the Lower Little and Big Blue River Watersheds. Applications are available at your local Conservation District offices. You may also contact them for cost share rates, program summary, and details. In ... Read More »
The Nemaha County Sheriff’s office is warning everyone of a scam which involves the victim receiving a text message on their phone stating their Debit Card has been cancelled and that they need to call the number provided to fix the problem. When the victim calls the number, they are asked to give their debit card number in an attempt ... Read More »
Press Release by David Coltrain. This column is one I did not think would be written for a number of years. However, I have been wrong about things before and I am certain it will happen again. I have accepted a position in the North Central Kansas Farm Management Association with official employment beginning on July 29. I will be ... Read More »
Kent Nester, Department of Roads Manager for Marysville reports they are prepared for winter with five plow trucks and one loader. According to Kent their vehicles are ready to roll with supplies of the salt mixture on hand. Nester said their number one priority is always the highways and roads leading to the hospital. He said a City of Marysville ... Read More »
On Monday, September 26, deputies of the Gage County Sheriff’s Office responded to Blue Springs. The reporting party advised that a black vehicle was tearing around by their house. The reporting party was able to provide the vehicle’s license number and Deputies leaned the vehicle was stolen out of Jefferson County. A deputy located the vehicle traveling north near S. ... Read More »
As Kansas farmers begin preparing their fields to plant winter wheat, the question being tossed around by the Ag experts is, how much more wheat will be planted because of the ongoing dry spell? Industry experts are predicting a significant rise in the number of wheat acres because of the dramatic failure of spring-planted crops. The next hurdle for all ... Read More »
On Saturday October 9th 2010, the Gage County Sheriff’s Office was made aware of a possible scam that was taking place in Gage County. Several people received a text message in reference to their bank card being ‘deactivated.” The text is requesting they call a number to re-activate the card. The Gage County Sheriff’s Office wants to remind people to ... Read More »
Home fires cause annual average of 2,840 civilian deaths Quincy, Mass. – According to a new study, Home Structure Fires, from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), home fires account for 92 percent of fire deaths that occur in structures. These fires cause an average of 2,840 civilian deaths each year. “This study strongly underscores the need to aggressively work ... Read More »
Kansas benefits from 20 years of AAH program More than 31,000 bags of trash – that’s just an average of what Adopt-A-Highway groups in Kansas remove from along roadways each year. This number is a rough estimate by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), that sponsors the program, taking the number of groups and multiplying them by an average of ... Read More »
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