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Miami’s Main Street alive with creativity at the Ottawa County Arts Festival
MIAMI, Okla. — A stretch of South Main Street in Miami was filled with creativity and a sense of community. The Ottawa County Arts and Humanities Council hosted its annual arts festival. Around 50 vendors, along with many food trucks set up shop on Main Street. Attendees also enjoyed...
A Joplin woman is hospitalized after home catches fire
Pittsburg, KS – Kansas Governor Laura Kelly visited the John Parolo Education Center at the community health center of southeast Kansas in Pittsburg yesterday. Members of the health center's leadership team and board of directors joined the governor to discuss the importance of the center's commitment to the area. The governor also referenced the Medicaid expansion in Missouri and the state's success in keeping hospitals and clinics running since then.
High school students lead spring cleanup in Southeast Kansas
RIVERTON, Kan. — A Southeast Kansas town is getting some extra T.L.C. today – thanks to hundreds of volunteers pitching in to help. “You know, tourists come through Route 66 all the time. To be able to see this house and be like, Oh, this is like a nice neighborhood,” said Dillon Leggett, Riverton Senior.
Community tensions rise over future sober living home set to open
Baxter Springs, Kans.- A new sober living home is set to open in Baxter Springs, designed to help men who are committed to maintaining sobriety after struggling with addiction. Upright House Ministries, a Christian nonprofit organization, is behind this initiative, planning to accommodate six men at the facility on Park Avenue.
Columbus Defends Their Home Field After a Sweep over St. Mary’s-Colgan
COLUMBUS, KS — The Columbus Lady Titans and the St. Mary’s-Colgan Lady Panthers squared off on the softball diamond for a big doubleheader. Columbus earned the sweep after winning game one (5-2) and winning game two via run rule (14-3). In their first game, Columbus got a big performance from Hailey Ediger on the mound […]
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