Greenwood County News

Pete Savute's childhood, he admits, was pretty romantic. He grew up in his family's Italian restaurant, which in the early days was staffed exclusively with Italian relatives - uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents.

The Emporia Gazette had a front page story on Friday on the efforts to save the Tall Grass Prairie which is in danger of being taken over by an invader species named sericea lespedeza.

We live in a rare place. Less than 4 percent of North America's original tallgrass prairie survives, and most of it is here in the Flint Hills.

When you tell a story, it is not unusual for the story to remind a reader of a story.

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

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

The Kansas Department of Transportation will begin repairing and resurfacing two bridges on K-99 in Greenwood County on Thursday.

This is Amateur Radio Week and the amateur radio operators - "hams" - from Lyon and Greenwood County will demonstrate equipment and talk about the usefulness of ham radio in public emergencies at a field day Saturday, Saturday night and part of Sunday morning at the Olpe City Park.

Fallen law-enforcement officers were honored this morning in front of the Civic Auditorium in a memorial service conducted by the Emporia Police Department.

Sedgwick County officials ask the Kansas Division of Emergency Management for 100,000 sandbags to hold back flood waters from recent storms.

By Megahn Snyder with Jim Grawe High water is to blame for a deadly accident in Greenwood County.

Greenwood County emergency workers said they found the body of 20 year old Joshua Smith of Yates Center along the banks of the flooded Verdigris River.

QUINCY a ' Authorities say they have found the body of a man whose truck was swept off the road during flooding in southeast Kansas.

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.