Garden Plain News

I hope what is happening in Iran today isn't a repeat of what happened when Jimmy Carter was president and sided with the dictator instead of with democracy.

With harvested wheat pouring into grain elevators this week across Kansas' southern regions, the yields and quality are getting mixed reviews.

Neighbors of a local farm family are putting their own wheat harvest on hold to supply some harvest help in that family's hour of need after two deaths within a few days of each other.

Sometimes the best you can do for those hurting is cut their wheat. That's what at least a dozen neighbors of Ron and Sarah Simon are doing this afternoon.

From Kiowa to Salina, the scissor action of combines is cutting off Kansas' waving amber waves.

Kaylie Clark of Garden Plain won the Class 3A javelin title. Despite coming in with the shortest distance in her heat , Clark won the competition with a throw of 128-3. Heidi Brown of Southwestern Heights finished secondA and Cheryl Seiwert of Conway Springs finished third .

Garden Plain junior Kurt Pauly continued his state title-winning stretch today by adding another one in the Class 3A boy's 400-meter dash.

Northwest's Andrew Etheridge has the state's top time in the 110 hurdles. But 6A has three others in the top 10, including Derby's Meshach Kennedy , Olathe North's Robert Saunders and Derby's Jake Groskurth .

The state meet will get underway this morning with the smaller schools holding the spotlight, and there will be some very good ones competing, especially in the 3A 400 meters where Garden Plain holds two of the top times in Kansas this spring, regardless of class.

Senior Ashlea Bengston leads the Falcons on the mound at 14-4 with a 1.60 ERA and at the plate, batting .621 with four home runs and 35 RBIs.

Doctors will diagnose more than one-hundred thousand people with colon cancer this year.

The rain had stopped and the last hour of sunlight lit Wescoe Beach when about 30 members of KU Students for Life gathered in prayer before marching to Lawrence's Planned Parenthood at 27th and Iowa streets Wednesday night.

Jakob Eck, 11, of St. Joseph Catholic School, represented Sedgwick County in regional spelling bee competition Feb.

Joe Allen of Allen's Chimney Sweep is passionate about his profession. He wants customers to realize that when they light a fireplace, it's like having a campfire in the middle of their house.

Friday, February 20, 2009 As of 11:30 a.m., February 20, 2009, a burn ban is in effect for all unincorporated areas of Sedgwick County, as well as all of Fire District #1, including the cities of Andale, Bel ...

Renwick school board members will consider lengthening the school day in Andale, Colwich and Garden Plain.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a deadly accident near the intersection of 21st St.

There's a full slate of basketball games tonight, so you've got your pick of where you want to be.

Jarvis Odgers, of Wichita, gathers some mulch at the Christmas Tree recycle station at Edgemoor Park, on Wednesday, December 31, 2008.

They were known simply as the Flying McConnells. During the height of World War II, the three brothers -- known for their passion for flying and their bravery -- soon became legends in the Air Capital of the ...