Plains News

There's an entire litany of old sayings that could pertain to this year's fall harvest.

When I left you last week, my father and I were traveling Kansas Highway 96 westbound, about to enter Ness City.

Thirty minutes before the dedication of Park on the Plains, volunteers spent time putting the finishing touches on the $300,000 playground.

No tall grass for winter _ It sounds right to let the lawn go into winter at a tall height for insulation.

Julie Eikenberry and others on site constructing the Scott City Community Playground Wednesday had various ways to stay warm, or dry rather.

Emergency crews in Meade County were called to a grain silo accident Saturday. It happened in the town of Plains.

One person has been seriously hurt after an accident at the Plains, KS, grain elevator.

Fertilize fescue - September is the best month to fertilize a fescue lawn, and we're about out of it.

Scott City is trying to raise $70,000 more for the $300,000 playground that will be built by volunteers next month.

Voting has begun in the latest a oe8 Wonders of Kansasa series sponsored by the Kansas Sampler Foundation.

Clicking your heels three times and saying 'There's no place like home' is a finalist for a top Kansas custom.

Janet Anguiano walked into the Deerfield Community Learning Center Wednesday morning, sat down at a computer and began reading chapters and taking notes in world geography.

Rarely are detailed glimpses of 19th century life in the Flint Hills available to the 21st century reader.

Mushroom Rocks, on Alum Creek, Kansas. 7 Miles east of Fort Harker & 496 miles west of St.

Mushroom Rocks, on Alum Creek, Kansas. 7 Miles east of Fort Harker & 496 miles west of St.

Some former kindergarten classrooms that have sat empty for years are planned to have a new use starting next month - a learning center where adults who never graduated from high school can earn Holcomb High School diplomas.

A group of Japanese organic food professionals are visiting Lawrence this week as part of an exchange program to learn new ways of increasing support and interest in local farmers and their homegrown food.

After the first day of taking appointments for the Laid-Off Workers Center, United Way of the Plains announced a contribution of $50,000 from the Kansas Health Foundation for the United Way Laid-Off Workers Fund.

Dyck Arboretum of the Plains' FloraKansas plant sale will be open to the public Saturday through Monday.

Emporia author Don Coldsmith has received the 2009 Mountain Plains Library Association's Literary Contribution Award.