Anthony News

With the advent of new engine technology to meet EPA 2010 emission standards, plus maintenance record requirements under CSA, running a truck maintenance shop for Anthony, Kan.-based Farmers Oil Company has never been as complicated as it is now for service manager Mitch Barker.

Earlier this year, Annette Johnson sat down with her 15-year-old son, Antonio, to tell him that his grandmother was in the hospital and in dire need of a new kidney.

In the endless horizon line of wheat fields that make up the United States heartland, there sits a serene little piece of America and it's called Anthony, Kansas - population 2,440. When people in this part of America want to see and feel the real-life effects of 9/11, they don't have to go to New York or Washington, DC, they can simply come to ... (more)

The small Harper County town of Anthony is far removed from the bustle of New York City and Washington, D.C. But in this small farm town sits a unique memorial to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Residents of Anthony raised more than $80,000 to build a Sept. 11 memorial in the town's park.