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Children play at the petting zoo at Conway Springs Fall Fest on Saturday afternoon. Warm weather helped draw a large crowd to Central Park and to downtown, where most of the festival events were held. See more photographs on Page A14.

Homecoming festivities were held last week at Clearwater High School and Conway Springs High School, culminating with crowning ceremonies at last Friday’s home football games. At left, Izzy Buchman and Aiden Snell were crowned as Clearwater’s homecoming queen and king.

The Goddard Fall Festival is almost here! Your guide to the festival, which will be held Oct. 6-7, can be found inside this week’s TSnews.

The Haysville Community Library is closed due to a bed bug infestation. The Haysville Community Library is closed due to a bug infestation. The infestation was discovered on Saturday, and exterminators are working to diagnose the situation and find a solution.

HAYSVILLE—Sunny Hibachi, Sushi, and Indonesian Food may be seeing some modest success but head chef and owner Muhamad Sani would like to see more. Sani wants to reinvigorate his restaurant venue with a few much needed updates, namely to the ceiling and walls.

TSnews GODDARD – The Goddard city council formally approved the city’s 2024 budget at Monday’s meeting after a pair of public hearings. The city had to hold a hearing to adopt a resolution to exceed the revenue neutral rate and a hearing on the budget itself.

TSnews CHENEY – The Cheney City Council approved a few standard yearly items at its meeting on Thursday, Sept. 14.

CONWAY SPRINGS – A new fire truck for fighting certain types of fires has been approved for the Conway Springs Fire Department. At their meeting last week, members of the city council discussed a bid for an RO-Brush Truck that would be used to fight fuel fires, grass fires and back yard fire calls.

CONWAY SPRINGS – The Conway Springs City Council approved the city's budget for 2024 following a public hearing held last Tuesday. The budget for next year does not include any tax increase, and the mill levy will stay the same at 73.196 mills.

Commodity distribution will take place in the next few days in both Cheney and Clearwater. In Cheney, distribution will take place 9-10:30 a.m.