Lincoln County News

A wild week for firefighters in Lincoln involved battling and conquering blazes that rendered two families homeless.

Soup Feed 11:00 AM Community Shop Building The P.Y.W. E.H.U. of Dorrance members will serve homemade chicken and noodle soup, chili, vegetable soup, sandwiches, pie, cake and drinks will be served.

Bids for state highway and construction maintenance projects for Ellsworth, Lincoln, Ottawa and Rooks counties have been accepted by the Kansas Department of Transportation.

A large group of citizens attended a public meeting intended to inform the public and answer questions Tuesday evening about the formation of an extension district between Lyon and Chase Counties.

Broome, a professor at Arapahoe Community College in Colorado, is the author of Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in the Kansas Indian War and Custer in the West.

Christopher J. Lyons, 21, of Grand Junction, Colo., was walking along the north side of the highway about one-third of a mile east of the Lincoln/Ottawa county line when he was hit by an unknown vehicle traveling west.

Two children riding in a car a ' a boy, 11, and a girl, 8, of Beloit a ' were taken to Mitchell County Hospital with minor injuries, according to Lincoln County Undersheriff Les Richards.

They were injured Wednesday afternoon when the minivan they were riding in collided with a loaded grain truck two miles north of Westfall.

Many people in central and eastern Kansas spent Saturday evening in their tornado shelters.

A blown transformer that has idled scores of wind turbines at the Smoky Hills Wind Farm for about four months is expected to be replaced soon.