Virgil News

The Future Business Leaders of America at Northern Heights High School will serve spaghetti, salad, bread, desserts and drinks from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday before the home football game against Chase County High School.

The 16th annual Grandview Community reunion will be held Sunday, beginning with a potluck lunch at 12:30 p.m. in the former Toledo Township High School building.

The Kansas Department of Transportation has approved bids for two projects in the Emporia area.

By The Emporia Gazette Friday, May 8, 2009 With reports of more than 6 inches of rain near Americus and water over the Kansas Turnpike, officials have made these announcements: a Madison-Virgil school district closed today; a North Lyon County schools, 1 hour delay with reports that Americus is isolated by flooding to the east, west and south.

LAST MONTH, I wrote a column about Jim Lehrer's book "Eureka." In this work of fiction, Lehrer pulled Eureka out of its natural habitat.