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GODDARD – This Friday’s football game between the Goddard Lions and Eisenhower Tigers will be broadcast locally on cable television. The crosstown rivalry game will be Cox Communications’ YurView game of the week.

TSnews Following a public hearing, the Garden Plain City Council approved a resolution Wednesday, Sept. 3, to exceed the revenue-neutral rate and increase the city’s property tax mill levy from 63 to 64 mills.

TSnews HAYSVILLE – The Haysville City Council approved the city’s budget at its meeting Monday and taxpayers will see a slight reduction in the mill levy in 2026. The levy will be 40.343 mills, down slightly from the 2025 rate of 40.445 mills.

Visitors to the final days of the Kansas State Fair should check the fair's website and social media for parking updates before heading to Hutchinson. Heavy rains on Monday made the majority of the fair's grass lots unusable, at least for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

TSnews GODDARD – Approval of the 2026 budget dominated the Sept. 2 Goddard City Council meeting, with nearly two hours spent listening to citizen comments before the council took action.

Insight It’s hard to see a yellow school bus and not think about all the hours of my childhood spent sitting on one of those hard seats with a stiff back. I hope the modern versions have a little more comfort than the utilitarian transportation I had to ride uphill both ways.

Included in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s sobering statistics on injuries and death in older adults due to falls are four very important words.

Cool-season grasses, like the Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue lawns common to many parts of Kansas, have had about enough of summer. The state’s high temperatures and sporadic rainfall often cause cool-season varieties to become thin by summer’s end.

TSnews Conway Springs High School graduate Brooke Beck’s college years will be a little easier, thanks to the generosity of the Sumner County Farm Bureau Association.

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