Wamego News

The City of Topeka was hiring contractors early Thursday for the removal of snow on residential streets, said city spokesman David Bevens, adding that residents should move their vehicles from the streets to allow snow vehicles access.

University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and three other leaders of public research universities will hand deliver to President Obama at the White House Jan.

When someone walks in the Wamego Times office to place an advertisement for a business, it could very well be a neighbor of a newspaper staff person.

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Owl, Tigger and Christopher Robin help Eeyore find his misplaced tail in the musical "A Winnie the Pooh Christmas Tail" at Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy.

Hospitals are a very important fixture when you need them, and one local hospital has gone through an administrative change.

The Lang family went to Branson, Mo., Thanksgiving week. Denise and Jaimie saw a movie, John and Johnny fished for trout, and the family had played miniature golf, ping-pong, swam, and viewed a magic show.

20. Photo 2 of 4 Photo 3 of 4 Rachel Koch sings "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" in one of the novelty numbers of the Columbian Theatre's "Christmas Spectacular" which the Wamego theater is staging through Dec.

The Kansas Highway patrol reports a couple of injury accidents in the area Sunday, including one on highway 77 a mile north of Randolph.

A woman is hurt in a crash early Sunday morning in Riley County involving a cow.

I know Republicans are benefitting these days in the popularity polls from the controversial health care reform being considered in Washington, D.C. I think that's because many voters may be unemployed and getting a job is far more important to them now than health care.

Anthocyanins are a special class of phenolic compound. Foods with a high phenolic content can also provide both anti-aging and antioxidant factors.

Though the weapons have long since been removed, Cold War-era missile sites in Kansas still draw careful attention from the Army Corps of Engineers.

State horticulturist breeding purple sweet potato for his state Nov. 20, 2009 OLATHE, Kan.

The Topeka Community Foundation has announced the recipients of its Prevention, Intervention and Education grants.

Up to 1,000 of Bluestem Electric Cooperative customers in northeast Kansas were without power Monday night after heavy snow knocked down poles and power lines.Bluestem manager Ken Maginley says crews were planning to work into the evening before going home for the night and resuming work Tuesday morning.Maginley says workers from other electrical ...

Some school districts in the state, such as Topeka, are considering layoffs and school closures, with the most recent announcement of even more cutbacks in school funding.

The Pottawatomie County commission canvassed the vote from last Tuesday's election, deciding whether or not to certify a vote to renovate and expand Central Elementary School in Wamego.

A hundred people attended the Saturday morning pancake feed at the legion. Some familiar faces in the crowd were Audine and Irwin Strand, Bonnie Sill and Beverly of Herington and Scott and Connie Barlow, Lexy and Alex, of Toronto.

Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes will be filled and wrapped at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Burdick United Methodist Church fellowship hall.

An unofficial vote count over a bond issue for Unified School District 320's Central Elementary School in Wamego gives the go-ahead for expansion and renovation of the school, superintendent Doug Conwell said Wednesday.