Virgil News

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.

Kansas , Governor Kathleen Sebelius has announced one appointment to the Southeast Kansas Library System.

Clarence Arndt could have kept busy enough running Arndt Equipment Co., and farming and enjoying his family.

MADISON a ' The Madison-Virgil school district will have a new superintendent beginning July 1 following the school boarda TMs decision to hire Ryan Bradbury, assistant principal at Shawnee Heights High School ...

In Dante's epic poem "Inferno," the main character has a guide, the Roman poet Virgil, to show him through the nine circles of hell.