Phillipsburg News

Byron D. "Tom" Morgan and Lela Bennett, Glade, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Nov.

Janielle Marsteller, 4, talks with Santa at Palmer Park Mall last year. Santa arrives at Palmer Park Mall at 11 a.m. and Phillipsburg at 10 a.m. If you haven't been on your best behavior, there's no time to waste.

Midwestern State's Sydnee Cole garnered Lone Star Conference Runner of the Week honors for the third time this season Thursday when the league announced its weekly awards.

The Kansas Department of Commerce will award $75,000 in Incentives Without Walls funding for eight community improvement projects in Chanute, Holton, Hutchinson, Manhattan, Phillipsburg and Seneca, officials announced Tuesday.

TOPEKA, Kan. a ' Five Kansas schools, including Broken Arrow Elementary School in Lawrence, were among 314 schools in the United States named by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as 2009 National Blue Ribbon Schools.

Brian Boeve knows a thing or two about how small towns can rally behind their school districts.

Though the class ring possesses no mystical powers like Gollum's coveted "my precious" in the popular J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy fiction series, it does hold strong sentimental value to Somerville resident Robert Charles Bradley.

Bret and Tami Wood, Hays, and Howard and Peggy King, Phillipsburg, announce the upcoming marriage of their children, Kelsey Lyn Wood and Jordan Nolan King.

In just a few days, cowboys and cowgirls from throughout the country will descend on this small northwest Kansas town.

Standing side-by-side, Steve Greer and daughter Jordin waited -- hands poised beside their revolvers -- for the signal to draw.

Drue Herl of Adams, Brown, Beran and Ball has completed all requirements to become licensed as a certified public accountant in the state of Kansas.

Jerry and Gloria DeWitt, Prairie View, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Kassandra DeWitt, to William Artz, son of Ken and Linda Artz, Phillipsburg.