Formoso News

Marie Emily Anne Breckenkamp Blackwood passed peacefully away on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

Sixty-five years ago, March 8, 1947, the bloodshed that came to be known as the 228 Massacre began in wholesale numbers as Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang troops, battle-hardened by years of fighting with the Japanese and then the Chinese Communists, came ashore on the island of Taiwan.

Faces: Student 'Tackling Diabetes'

Smith Brothers Pest Control found nests of Formosan termites on a boat in a boatyard near downtown St.

Max A. Blanding, 81, of Wichita, died Oct. 6 at his home in Wichitaw. A retired Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad agent telegrapher, Max was born and raised in Formoso.