Sharon Springs News

This is day 12 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.

Misty Pettigrew, 40, of Sharon Springs, sued KDOT over her May 2008 firing. She had been hired in December 2007.

An accident in Wallace County on Tuesday resulted in the deaths of two Weskan residents.

Two weeks earlier, all Ronnie Hill could think about was what might have been. Despite having a fast car, the modified driver couldn't make his way around cars ahead of him, and he eventually finished third.

Misty M. Pettigrew, 40, of Sharon Springs, lost her job in May 2008, five months after being hired by KDOT as an equipment operator trainee.

A friendship that has developed between John and Joan Osler of Imperial and Ernie Poe of Sharon Springs, Kan., will benefit Chase County Museum patrons this weekend.

McKelvey drove in three runs with a home run, a double and a single for the Sabres , who put the game out of reach with a six-run fourth inning.

The shelves that line the walls in Ted Howard's shop outside Oakley remain filled, the result of a sour economy.

When Marilyn Holdeman was a young girl more than 70 years ago, she would sit on her father's lap as he cut open oranges with his pocketknife, creating citrus flowers from the fruit's peel.

School officials in several northwest Kansas counties checked the weather forecast and opted to leave the buses parked Friday, although in some areas, the worst of the storm wasn't expected to hit until today.

On a scale of 1-to-10, weather-watcher Bill Mai is giving this latest spring storm a miserly 4, even though it had been billed as a storm of epic proportions.

I appreciated the opportunities these past two weekends to discuss legislative matters in Marion County, and I look forward to the March 21 meeting in Chase County at the Farm Bureau office.

The program is designed to assist communities with populations of 5,000 or less.

When the numbers came in, Eddie Wells knew they had to be double checked. After all, losing 600,000 acres of wheat -- the equivalent of all the wheat fields in Ellis, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Trego and Gove ...

And raining. And raining. Now, virtually all of northwest Kansas will end the year with above-average precipitation.

Wichitan Todd Allen has been elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association.