Richmond News

Friday, October 09, 2009 Susan Jane Wood of Franklin died Tuesday at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia.

Once is good, but twice is better. Ottawa landed on the latest a oe8 Wonders of Kansasa twice.

Things I learned while hanging out on the midway at the Missouri State Fair: Monkeying around While Lady Gaga may be all the rage on the radio airwaves, Lady April owns the midway.

A drawing from an old Central Heights yearbook depicts the school district's facility from the air not long after construction.

Although the town of Richmond was not laid out until 1870, its early history is connected with the settlement of Berea, a community established as early as 1857.

Gov. Mark Parkinson signed a disaster declaration Friday for six counties hit hard by storms this week.

More than 700 households in south-central Kansas remained without power Thursday afternoon as a result of a severe storm that struck the area on Wednesday.

For one Richmond man, the fair is all about the children. "Everything's focused on the kids.

Alan Radcliffe first heard about the storm on a weather radio. Radcliffe, Franklin County emergency management director, said a report from the National Weather Service Saturday evening warned him of an approaching threat to Franklin County.

It was a tree that Steve Miner says saved his house from additional damage. Trees were uprooted in Minera s home near Rantoul following Monday nighta s batch of thunderstorms and high winds.

Franklin County Sheriff Craig Davis talks with Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents, Ottawa Fire Department officers and Franklin County Sheriffa s deputies as they document evidence from a burned vehicle March 5 at the Franklin County Public Works building, 1939 Elm St., Ottawa.

Alan and Darla Peterson, Greeley, have announced the engagement of their daughter Megan Peterson, Ottawa, to Jeremy Raby, Ottawa.

Virgil H. Hermreck, 77, Williamsburg, died Thursday, May 7, 2009, at his home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m. Monday at St.

Leo Eugene a oeBuda Laird, age 75, of Richmond, Kan., went fishing with the Lord on Wednesday, April 29, 2009.