Girard freshman Drew Davied capped off a memorable first high school track season in style Saturday morning at the 103rd annual Kansas state championship in Cessna Stadium.
Davied won Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League and regional titles in the high jump and he can now add his first state title to his list of accomplishments.
He matched his personal best of 6 feet, 8 inches, edging out Garrison LeRock and Lane Macari of Andale in the Class 4A high jump.
The community of Mulberry celebrated its heritage and heroes Friday evening during the community’s Orange and Black in the park event.
Growing up in southeast Kansas, Dustin Cranor didn’t get much experience with beaches and oceans.
He’s made up for it since then, and was recently promoted to the post of communications director for U.S. Campaigns for Oceana, the largest advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans.
The first day of the Kansas state track meet produced one state champion from Crawford County and she took her place in a family tradition.
The towering walls that will form the bones of Pittsburg State University’s Center for the Arts are taking shape quickly following a few months worth of groundwork to prepare the site for this step.
Steve Scott started out running a vacuum cleaner at a J.C. Penney store in his hometown, Quincy, Ill. After a few promotions over nearly 44 years of service to the company, he’s retiring as manager of the J.C. Penney at Meadowbrook Mall.
The Frontenac Raiders were simply overpowered by the Pratt Greenbacks during a 10-4 loss Thursday night in the first round of the Class 4A state tournament at the Bill Burke Complex.
Left-handed pitcher Britnee Hill tossed 13 strikeouts and the Greenbacks relied on three big hits for eight of their 10 runs — Savanah Buntemeyer made the score 2-all with a two-run home run in the third, Kinzie Spurgin gave Pratt a 4-2 lead in the same frame with a two-run double and Bre Becker placed some major distance with a grand slam in the fifth to give the Greenbacks a 8-3 advantage.
The first two innings looked good for the Raiders, as senior pitcher Lindsey Gorham supported herself with a two-run homer in the first and blanked Pratt.
Frontenac could not avoid the two-run and four-run outbursts — Pratt scored four in the third, four in the fifth and two in the seventh.
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