Alta Vista News

An Antique and New Tractor Show will "crank up" the spring tourism season Saturday at Ag Heritage Park, 103 S. Main in Alta Vista.

A Kansas State University at Salina student who was forced to perform an emergency landing Tuesday in a Geary County wheat field had miscalculated the amount of fuel in the university aircraft, according to a university news release.

A Kansas State University at Salina student was not injured when she was forced to land one of the university's planes in a wheat field Tuesday afternoon when it ran out of fuel during a solo flight, and the plane didn't appear to be seriously damaged.

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Ten-year-old Stanley Reinhart had never seen snow before in his life. Two weeks ago during the fifth-grade science camp at Blue Sky Meadow, he had his chance - along with 105 other students from Alta Vista Elementary School.