Verda Nisly of rural Oswego has spent some time shooting springtime
photographs, including this one of a colorful crocus with drippy rain water
falling from its pretty face.

Let’s have an Easter Egg Hunt in Labette Avenue. Look for the Easter egg among all of the news items for the next couple of weeks. To enter send us your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, specify adult or child and the location of the Easter egg. It will not be located in the Spring

Green edition this week, but in the weekly Labette Avenue only. Read more

The Labette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call on Saturday afternoon, March 13, at 852 1000 Road, Edna. Several persons had been conducting a controlled burn of the grassy field and the woman had become trapped by the fire and had died.
The victim was identified as 64 year old Celia K. Harris, Fredonia. The body has been sent to Topeka for autopsy.

Keith Martin, Labette Extension Agent told county commissioners of the upcoming e-waste recycling set for April 17.
A third recycling will be held in Parsons in September. Read more

The Labette County Sheriff’s Department has released the name of a woman who was killed in a controlled grass fire on Saturday afternoon.

Celia K. Harris, 64, of Fredonia was pronounced dead at the scene of a grass fire near 825 1000 Road near Edna at about 2:20 p.m., Saturday.  Upon arrival, Labette County Sheriff’s Department officers and Coffeyville EMS learned that Harris had become trapped by the grass fire and succumbed to the smoke and flames.  Harris had become trapped between the fire and a fence row when she was unable to escape.

Sheriff William Blundell said numerous persons were fighting the controlled fire.

An autopsy has been performed to determine the exact cause of death.

For more information, see the March 17, 2010, issue of the Labette Avenue. To locate previously posted death notices, enter the decedent’s last name in the archive search box on Labette Avenue’s home page. Labette Avenue publishes death notices free of charge. Paid obituaries ($20) are printed in their entirety in the Labette Avenue and online at www.taylornews.org/lba.

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