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7 Years Ago Campus High School graduate Marissa Sullivan spoke up after students disrupted a Kansas State University pre-game football ritual Saturday. When students started a vulgar chant, the K-State marching band stopped playing, in the middle of the “Wabash Cannonball.”

From October 1941 There will be a free show given at the Township Hall on Halloween evening on Friday, Oct. 31.

140 Years Ago Work on the Methodist Church began last Monday and is well underway. It will be finished and ready for use before cold weather.

Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc. (WEC) is ready to “power the pantry” in 2024 with a $50,000 commitment to local food banks across their southwest and central Kansas service territories and give you the chance to win four tickets to a Kansas City Chiefs football game.

GODDARD – Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation have announced the names of more than 16,000 semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Three students at Eisenhower High School were among the students recognized nationwide.

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GODDARD – The Friends of the Goddard Public Library will host a semi-annual book sale as part of Goddard’s Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 12.

TSnews HAYSVILLE – Members of the Haysville Chamber of Commerce got a crash course last week on the possible bond issue that is being discussed by USD 261 school officials.

SUMNER COUNTY – Cowley College has announced a significant boost to its welding program, thanks to a $41,055 grant from the Kansas Department of Commerce’s Jobs and Innovative Industry Skills Training Grant (JIIST).

The Office of the Registrar and the Graduate School at Northwest Missouri State University have released the names of students who completed requirements for degrees at the conclusion of the 2024 summer term. Tanner Young of Goddard earned a master of science in data analytics.