Emporia News

The Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas discussed in its Friday board meeting of how to retain jobs, and it reviewed its 2011 financial statements.

A couple of days ago, I received an email from Max McCoy, whom I worked with in the mid-1980s at the Pittsburg Morning Sun and who now writes books and teaches journalism at Emporia State University.

One of my 2011 highlights is when ESU professors Dr. Harvey Foyle and Dr. Marcus Childress visited South Korea to talk to my students about technology and the future of learning.

The evening will feature dancing, light hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar and music from Maxout Entertainment's Kelly Maxfield.

Editor's Note: Emporia attorney Tom Krueger chatted with online readers at Gazette offices recently to answer questions about the law and working with attorneys.

The Multi-Use Path Planning Board of the City of Emporia is gathering information about the bicycle-riding habits of community members.

The winners of the annual Chili Cook-Off at First Baptist Church have been announced.

A recent outbreak of scarlet fever around Emporia and an even more recent outbreak of whooping cough in Manhattan makes it hard to defend a bill that was brought before the Kansas legislature a couple weeks ago asking to widen the exemptions for childhood vaccines to include a parent or guardian's personal belief.

Please take the following surveys to help Riverside and William Allen White fifth-graders with their "How can I positively impact Emporia and its future?" project.

Music by Anton Zouplna will be a feature of tomorrow's Winter Market. It opens at 10 a.m. in the Emporia Humanitarian Center, 215 W. Sixth Ave.

A former employee at an Emporia nursing home was due in court today for sentencing on charges she added tap water to a painkiller prescribed for a 105-year-old patient.

A hit and run accident has caused flames, downed power lines and a power outage to parts of the east side of Emporia at 11 p.m. this evening.

"The city saw a number of initiatives during 2011," Nelson said. ".... Three city commissioners were elected in April: Bobbi Mlynar, Rob Gilligan and Joel Phipps." The new comissioners "received a baptism under fire by starting on budget at their first meeting.

Friends of Stan Sommers on Wednesday reminisced about a man whose feet always itched to travel, even as they were firmly rooted in the Emporia community.

Bill Barnes, director of ESU's MBA program and director for the Center of Business and Economic Development at Emporia State University, facilitated the session.

Emporia has twenty-three Lyon Countians circulating the petition to put the "extension decision" on the ballot.

For two years our community has followed the saga of Fanestil Meats who is working to move their business out of the flood plain.

A growing hobby and money-saving activity is going to be taught as a community connections class at Flint Hills Technical College.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan. - Lyon County residents have the opportunity to reserve tickets for the seventh annual Symphony in the Flint Hills event before tickets go on sale to the public March 10.

The only full-time executive director S.O.S. Inc. has known will retire from the job at the end of June, according to an announcement from the organization.