Wakefield News

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 5--Over half of the $107,000 the school board approved Monday in summer maintenance projects went toward improvements to Wakefield Schools.

In a presentation at the Wakefield Museum, Debbie White, manager of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, told a group of citizens Thursday about the 41 counties in Kansas and Missouri that are part of the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, which include Geary and Clay counties....

A long-envisioned plan by Eagle Communications to modernize services for communities throughout north-central Kansas is progressing toward the finishing line, the company reported.

An attorney representing the Kansas Bar Association argued Wednesday against modification of a state law relied upon to compel child support payments from a man who underwent testing that proved he wasn't the ...

Army Master Sgt. Christopher Sprowson's deployment to Iraq in 2005 was complicated not by routine orders passed down in a war zone, but by the contents of a startling letter the state of Kansas sent to his ...

The school board made closing Longford at the end of the 2008-09 school year after summer school official with a resolution passed 4-3 Monday night.

What makes Medicalodge a highly-rated nursing home are the activities. Medicare gave the 49-bed nursing home in Clay Center and another in Clifton high marks in its five-star rating system.

The year 2009 will be a "new chapter" in the history of the Clay Center Area Chamber of Commerce, according to the newly-elected chairman of the organization.

In its first 100 years, Farmers and Merchants State Bank saw a vault door re-welded, the first drive-up window in Clay County and survived more than one financial crisis.

Sport Safe will be the vendor to provide random drug testing, as approved by the school board Monday, but the policy itself is still in question.

Clay Center resident Mike Smith has shot a 27-point doe with antlers still covered in velvet.