Sharon Springs News

Water specialists from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will be in central and western Kansas in early January measuring water-well levels.

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It's been a journey not at all unlike that of settlers heading west to reach the western Kansas frontier.

Winter weather systems put in place by the Kansas Department of Transportation worked as they should, agency officials said.

The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced the closure of the following northwest Kansas roads due to winter weather conditions: a I-70 closed from Colby to Denver ; a US-36 from St.

The superintendent of Stanton County USD 452 has been suspended with pay. The Stanton County USD 452 Board of Education on Monday night voted 6-1 to suspend Superintendent Susan Scherling.

The resolution is similar to KAWG's own policy, adopted by membership at its annual meeting July 30 in Wichita.

Claim: Photographs show a train that set a wooden bridge on fire. TRUE Example: [Collected via e-mail, July 2009] Comment: The Good news: It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, KS when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina.

Claim: Photographs show a train that set a wooden bridge on fire. TRUE Example: [Collected via e-mail, July 2009] Comment: The Good news: It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, KS when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina.

The vibrant life in Quinter's downtown belies census estimates that the community is losing a huge chunk of its population.

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.