Ellinwood News

Donald R. Veach , 67, died Nov. 10 at Hospice Family Care, Casa Grande, Ariz. He was born March 10, 1942 in Great Bend, the son of George and Irene Schiltter Veach.

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres gives audience member, Tania Osborn from Ellinwood, Kansas a big surprise on Wednesday, November 11th.

LaVonne Ammeter went to Florence the morning of Oct. 21 to get a perm. That afternoon she went to Burns to attend the AARP driver safety course at the Burns Community building.

A call to a domestic disturbance on Halloween night turned into a felony case when a teenager reportedly rammed into an Ellinwood Police Department patrol truck and then stole that truck.

In alphabetical order: Bringing musicians together: For a decade there's been a lively jam session at the Emma Chase Cafe in Cottonwood Falls almost every Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Chanting a school fight song: The University of Kansas's Rock Chalk Jayhawk cheer is one of the best in the nation.

The Fifth Annual Fall Gospel Sings Concert will be held Friday and Saturday at the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Barton Community College campus, 245 NE 30 Road, rural Great Bend.

Last week, a photographer in central Kansas e-mailed us, saying he had a photo of Kansas state Sen.

WHILE TRAVELING around the Sunflower State, you pass through a lot of small towns.

Martha Peterson proved early on that women can make it to the top. Peterson, a University of Kansas alumna and former KU dean of women, became the first female president of one of the colleges where she worked and later was the first woman to serve on the board of directors of Exxon.

The cities of Ellinwood and Larned will celebrate July 4 with rockets' red glare.

Keri Wise and Joseph Vinduska were married May 29 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Ellinwood.

Incoming University of Kansas students and their parents from Barton, Edwards, Pawnee, Rush and Stafford counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, in Great Bend.

She's looking for as many good men as she can find. Now in her 15th year of heading up the Sterling Old-Fashioned Fourth of July parade, Millie Casey has two floats decorated for military personnel to ride on and will be happy to add a third if it's needed.

It has been 10 years since someone viciously beat Dana Hupfer and left her in a Wichita parking lot.

The wife of Harold Eugene Hughes, who died Tuesday at a rural Ellinwood home, said some information printed about her was not correct.

ELLINWOOD a ' An initial investigation shows that a deadly shooting Tuesday in rural Barton County took place in self defense.

Investigators in Barton County are on the scene of a deadly shooting. Officials with the Barton County Sheriff's Department say it happened in the eastern part of the county near Ellinwood.