Tescott News

Halloween Costume Contest 5:00 PM Ellsworth City Hall The Ellsworth Kiwanis Club sponsors its annual Halloween Costume Contest for children up to fourth grade.

More than 30 people submitted wheat-related photographs to the annual Kansas Wheat Photo Contest for the 2009 Kansas State Fair in September.

Jim and Lynette Vallacqua announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jenna, to Jason Crooks, all of Louisburg.

Six class champions were crowned and five of those won their Feature race to commemorate their season championships.

On a cool but very pleasant evening for summer racing, the Minneapolis Raceway hosted 123 cars in 6 classes before another large crowd for the next to last weekend of racing for division points this season.

The first Salina Area Chamber of Commerce Inter-City Visit is Sept. 23-25. The cities are 90 miles apart and are similar in makeup to Salina, said Daran Neuschafer, chairman of the chamber board of directors and owner of the American Family Insurance Daran Neuschafer Agency.

Deputies believe that alcohol may have played a factor in the crash. Alcohol may have played a factor in a crash involving a Saline County dump truck and a pickup truck.

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas!; words heard normally in December were in vogue at the Minneapolis Raceway Saturday as "Christmas in July" was the theme on a warm summer evening.

Ottawa County Attorney Betty Mick says that Niles Wise has been charged in district court with felony obstruction.

The accident claimed the life of Christopher Lyons, 22. The suspect's name will not be released until charges are filed, according to the patrol's release.

The accident happened at around 3:00 Sunday morning along K-18 Highway, about halfway between Tescott and Beverly.

They were injured Wednesday afternoon when the minivan they were riding in collided with a loaded grain truck two miles north of Westfall.

The Phillips Seed Farms office manager in Tescott has watched the companya s grain elevator overfill with the crop that has far exceeded predictions in north-central Kansas.

G.W. Fuller in victory lane Saturday night. In a night that was a rebound from a rain out the previous weekend, the Minneapolis Raceway provided enough thrills and excitement Saturday night to show that not a beat was missed by the week's delay.

Cory Struckhoff's win in the Martin Newlin Memorial Feature Race for The Bank of Tescott IMCA Stock car races capped a beautiful evening of racing, events and ceremony at the Minneapolis Raceway on Saturday night.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 A driver traveling at a high rate of speed hit an embankment along Halstead Road, which sent the vehicle airborne.

Volunteer Van Wiskur and Max Alleger, private land conservationist with the Missouri Department of Conservation put a prairie chicken in a bag after it was caught in a trap on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 northwest of Salina.

Kansas is helping out its neighbors by letting Missouri have some of its Greater Prairie Chickens.