Arma News

On Tuesday Arma Fire Chief Mike McLeod and Crawford County commissioners are breaking ground on a new fire station.

ARMA, Kan. - An Arma woman will have to repay more than $130,000 and transfer property to the estate of an elderly woman as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time in a felony abuse case.

Three former local writers returned Thursday, Oct. 1, to recite poetry in the Special Collections room of Axe Library.

The Mercy Health Center Foundation recently announced the addition of five new board members.

Newcomers to the Arcadia Christian Church Sunday School on the first Sunday in October were Cherish Taylor and her sister Alyshia Taylor, who attended with their neighbor, Cheyenne Melon.

Mayor Rudy Draper forecasts the next twelve months for Pittsburg at the State of the City address Tuesday morning.

Richard L. Kerley and Joyce Mae Briggs were married on Sept. 4, 1949, in Arcadia, Kan.

Robert L. "Bob" Adams, 84, of rural Arcadia, died at 11:35 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009 at Mt.

Pittsburg Morning Sun Christopher Stinebaugh, the 21-year-old Arma man injured in Tuesday's one-vehicle accident, is in fair condition, according to a spokesperson for Freeman ... Several injured in traffic accidents on roads in area Joplin Globe all 4 news articles>>

The children of Donald and Carolyn Zornes will host a celebration to honor their parents 50 years of marriage.

Forty-four Kansas communities -- including Mayetta and Riley -- will share a total of $13,081,660, including $4,370,331 in stimulus dollars, in federal grants through the Community Development Block Grant program, the Kansas Department of Commerce said.

Ten years of planning and a vision of what could be culminated in the ribbon cutting for the soon to be completed 69 Hwy.

Forty-four Kansas communities -- including Mayetta and Riley -- will share a total of $13,081,660, including $4,370,331 in stimulus dollars, in federal grants through the Community Development Block Grant program, the Kansas Department of Commerce said.

Every day for the past two weeks, Arma residents have wandered over to East Washington Street to watch as the history of the town comes to life in a mural on the wall of Chico's Bar and Grill.

The last town in America to have a V-J Day Homecoming celebration, so far as we know, is little Arma, a quiet, Mayberry-like town just off U.S. Highway 69 north of Pittsburg.

PITTSBURG a ' A water supply district in southeast Kansas may soon switch to wind turbines to power its treatment plant.

Beacham/Parcel Jasmine Beacham and Tyler Parcel were married Saturday April 11, 2009 at Lavern's Wedding Chapel in Miami,OK. The Rev presided over the double ring ceremony.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - The U.S. Department of Transportation announced last week that it will disburse almost $1 million in grant funding to the U.S. Highway 69 Association in Kansas to further the group's effort to extend the four-lane highway from Arma to U.S. Highway 400 in Cherokee County.

Shawnee County Sheriff Richard Barta congratulated 49 graduates of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center at a June 19 ceremony at the 4-H Encampment Building at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.

Kansas authorities say two fires Tuesday that destroyed an abandoned house and a nonprofit group's building were suspicious in origin.