Eskridge News

Responsibility for helping with recovery operations in this tornado-ravaged city about 35 miles southwest of Topeka is being transferred back to local officials by the Northeast Kansas Incident Management Team.

Just 48 hours after an EF-2 tornado damaged large parts of Harveyville on Tuesday night, some 210 loads of debris had been moved to a special landfill east of the Wabaunsee County community as part of an ongoing cleanup, officials reported Friday.

Volunteers who want to help clean up tornado-ravaged Harveyville will be allowed into the northeast Kansas town starting Thursday, the United Way of the Plains said.

Alberici Constructors Inc., a construction company based in St. Louis, Mo., recently began construction of a $14 million addition to Memorial Hospital in Abilene.