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GARDEN PLAIN – Pop country band The Lough Brothers from Wellington took the stage in Garden Plain Saturday night. The band was the City of Garden Plain’s featured live musicians for the Sept.

New York’s John Brown BBQ dishes out food and fandom from Kansas City TSnews QUEENS, N.Y. – Sitting on a tree-lined, mostly residential street in Queens, N.Y., is a slice of Kansas City.

From October 1901 This week we issue the Star in the form of a six-column quarto instead of five as it has been appearing. We have put in a new press and are making every effort to handle the business here and send out the very best paper we can. Ed. note: The entire front page was an ad for Aker’s variety, a store-wide first-anniversary sale.

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.” Once the music stopped, a video board in the football stadium played a pre-recorded message from head football coach Bill Snyder, asking students not to use the chant in the future.

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.