Allen News

Monday: hot dog on a bun, Spartan fries, broccoli florets and dip, mandarin oranges.

A nostalgic weekend of cowboy tales and music will return to Fort Scott June 12-14. The 13th Annual Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, June 12 with performances of special cowboy and western music, and conclude at 10 a.m. Sunday with a morning church service and chuck wagon breakfast.

Five times now a governor has come from Wichita -- more than from any other city in Kansas.

By Bobbi Mlynar , Brandy Nance Monday, April 20, 2009 Two Lyon Countians facing serious health problems will have more money to pay for treatments and expenses after fundraising activities held this weekend in Emporia and Allen.

Bob Lowder of Allen is recovering from surgery at Stormont-Vail Health Care, as family, friends and neighbors are organizing fundraising events to help pay for expenses resulting from a serious health issue that surfaced in March.

The miniature train in Sodena s Grove will run on Sunday to benefit the Dan Tebbetts Medical Fund.

Mercy Health System of Kansas and the Pleasanton Family Practice announce the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mercy Medical Clinic of Linn County on Thursday, April 16 at 1 p.m. The new facility and groundbreaking will be held at the intersection of the 1100 Rd and Hwy 69 in Pleasanton, Kan.

Wednesday is the deadline for reservations for "An Evening with Dr. Walt Menninger," a benefit for the William Allen White State Historic Site.

Election workers check in precinct votes. A small voter turnout combined with write-in votes to create some interesting results in Tuesday's election for posts on boards and councils in Lyon County towns and in Chase County.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Republican Women meetings - The Lyon County Republican Women will meet for their monthly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the home of Karen Hartenbower, 1857 Road 170 .

Monday, April 6, 2009 Head to the polls For those who didna TMt cast advance votes by noon today, the polls will be open for 12 hours on Tuesday a ' from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters who live in Emporia will be voting on whether a smoking ban ordinance should go into effect or not.

Each Friday, The Gazette salutes those who make Emporia and the surrounding area a better place to live and work.

Several people in Emporia were recognized Tuesday morning for their efforts in fighting chronic disease.

Emporia escaped the heavy snowfall that buried parts of western and central Kansas, but the ice and snow storm that battered the city Friday night and Saturday was no walk in the park.

The spring meeting of the Santa Fe Trail Republican Women of North Lyon County will be at 1 p.m. April 8 at the Allen Senior Center.

Dawn Walker, 41, 300 Fleming St., was arrested at 12:12 a.m. in the 1000 block of East Spruce Street on allegations of aggravated battery, aggravated assault, obstruction, battery on a law enforcement officer, ...

The annual meeting of Library District 1 Lyon County in Allen will be at 7 p.m. March 3 in the library building.

I was just a scrawny kid of 6 or 7 when I first poked my right leg through the frame of a neighbor's adult bicycle and rode off the side of the machine.

A teenager from Garden City was killed in a one-car crash early Sunday. It happened just after 3 a.m. three miles north of Highway 50 on 3rd Street.

Shirlene Tatum is a new employee at the Americus Township Library. She is substitute assistant librarian The complete sets of the William Allen White books for Grades 3 through 5 and 6 through 8 are available ...