Chase County News

By The Emporia Gazette Thursday, November 19, 2009 Emporia State baseball coach Bob Fornelli has announced that he has signed Chase County senior pitcher Shawn Talkington to play for the Hornets in 2011.

It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas in Chase County and festivities are right around the corner.

Those who dona t have a place to go for Thanksgiving this year or simply want to eat outside their home will have the opportunity in Chase County and in Lyon County through community Thanksgiving dinners.

The Durham Community annual pancake and sausage feed will be held from 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

Final results from state assessment tests have given area school districts cause to celebrate.

Tabor College chemistry professor Bruce Heyen fills the weather balloon with helium, assisted by students in his astronomy class.

Chase County attorney Charles Rayl joined an elite list Sunday afternoon when he was inducted into the Kansas National Guard Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Topeka.

Golden LivingCenter in Cottonwood Falls has received a Step I Quality Award from the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living for outstanding care and service it provides to its residents.

By The Emporia Gazette Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Chase County freshman Kaylee Engle finished 15th on Saturday at the Class 2A State cross country meet in Wamego.

Bison returned to the Flint Hills on Friday morning and were released onto 1,100 acres of the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve.

Font Size: STRONG CITY, Kan., _ A man who fell into a grain elevator in Strong City Wednesday lost a leg and faces more surgery.

Justin Lee, 37, of Strong City was flown to a Wichita hospital this morning after receiving critical injuries to his legs in an accident at a grain elevator in Strong City.

By Bobbi Mlynar , Brandy Nance Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Influenza has arrived early and often in some school districts in this area, while absences in the Emporia district began to trend down on Monday.

Emporia bills itself as the "Front Porch of the Flint Hills" and when you open that front door, you are in the Chase County majestic Flint Hills.

Marion Bina, 55, was pronounced dead at the scene of a head-on accident Sunday night near the Saffordville turnoff on West Highway 50 in Chase County.

Lyon County commissioners spent part of their Wednesday study session discussion the possibility of Lyon and Chase Counties forming an extension district.

When Charles W. Rogler set foot in Chase County in 1859, he left a permanent legacy - A a legacy that will be celebrated Saturday at the original site of the Rogler homestead, off of Highway 177 one mile north of Matfield Green.

The seventh annual Homemade Pan-Fried Taco dinner and sale will be held from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Didde Catholic Campus Center, 1415 Merchant St.

THERE HAS BEEN much discussion in the community recently concerning the Lyon County Extension Council proposal to join with Chase County as an extension district.

The Coffey County Republican reported that the Burlington USD 244 Board of Education Monday passed a resolution that will allow a 4-mill tax levy for capital improvements.