Fontana News

LA CYGNE a ' Two area women were honored last week at a reception at the La Cygne Library.

While the Osawatomie and Fontana fire departments are certainly no strangers to each other, theya re going to have the chance to get to know each other a little better from here on out.

Standing just a few inches taller than the table featuring her homemade pillow cases, 8-year-old Charity Dunlop of Parker was literally a small businesswoman Friday at Cross Point Assembly of God in Paola.A But what she didna t have in height, she made up for in salesmanship as she greeted each potential customer and marketed the benefits of both ...

Osawatomie USD 367 will put on a Safety Summit on Thursday at Osawatomie High School.

Fontana and Osawatomie firefighters responded to a house fire Friday morning at the home of Dennis and Tina Fenoughty, 24345 W 383rd St., northwest of Fontana.

It didna t take long for Paola police detectives to track down several items stolen recently from W.H. Debrick Co.

The Paola Police Departmenta s response to the recent theft of more than $16,000 worth of tools and vehicles from W.H. Debrick Co.

Local authorities are looking for a person of interest in connection with a shots-fired incident near Fontana earlier this month.

A crowd of youths from across Miami County will gather in Wallace Park in Paola on Saturday for the seventh annual Back 2 Skool Bash.

Local law enforcement personnel are still searching for three suspects who allegedly opened fire with rifles while Miami County Sheriffa s Office detectives were conducting an investigation in a field northeast of Fontana on Wednesday morning.

The Miami County Sheriff's Department said plainclothes officers who were conducting an investigation in a field outside Fontana on Wednesday were fired on by someone in a white pickup truck.

A 47-year-old Fontana woman was burned last week in a welding accident at Taylor Forge Engineered Systems in Paola.

FONTANA, Kan. a ' Miami County Sheriffa TMs deputies spent Wednesday looking for three suspects who they fired shots from a rifle near them.

Some Miami County crime investigators in plain clothes were working on a case in Fontana when they heard up to 10 shots fired.

A Fontana artist will be featured Friday in the Leawood Art Exhibit and Reception at M&I Bank.

Although congregations in the Parker, Beagle and Fontana United Methodist Charge were saddened by the recent retirement of Pastor Ed English this past June, many are just as excited to welcome a familiar face back to their designated pulpits.

A daughter, Ruby Faye Kane, was born June 23, 2009, at St. Lukea s South Hospital in Overland Park, to Chris and Kathy Kane of Paola.

A Louisburg student was among more than 600 students at Emporia State University to be named to the schoola s 2009 spring semester honor roll.

A Paola man found guilty of holding his estranged wife hostage and threatening two other people with a handgun last summer just south of Paola was sentenced June 10 to nearly five years in a state prison.

In Miami County, Kan., police said strong winds damaged the roof of Fontana Elementary School.