The Labette County Archery Club will be hosting a 3-D Archery shoot at the Tolen Creek Walking Trail on Sunday, Sept. 6 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The walking trail is located just south of 400 Highway East of 16th Street behind the Stockyards Travel Plaza in Parsons. Read more

A Welch school teacher, Harry “Butch” Beggerly, 61, died Sunday while hunting near Quemado Lake in the northern part of the 3.3-million-acre Gila National Forest in New Mexico.
Beggerly was in his second year as a science teacher and softball coach at Welch High School.
Investigators were not sure whether the lightning hit a tree first or the victim.
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Sue Murr kept walking by the north window of the Edna Historical Museum on Monday — the building that once was the First National Bank of Edna.
Lifelong Edna resident T.W. Stone gave her the official tour of the museum, typically pointing out various highlights of his hometown. But Sue kept returning to the window with its brass framework and the two bullet holes which have become local lore since the 1931 robbery of the bank.

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Debbi Baugher, Labette County Health Department Administrator, told the Labette County Commissioners at Monday’s meeting that she is expecting to receive news soon about H1N1 influenza funding in the amount of $10,300 for the first of three phases.
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Grossly overdue real estate taxes will result in a sheriff’s sale to be held in the district courtroom of the Labette County Courthouse on Wednesday, Oct. 21, County Counselor Fred Johnson told the Labette County Commission at its Monday meeting.
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