The play production at Sedan High School scheduled for this Friday, Nov. 13, has been postponed to Dec. 4.  Organizers say the postponement is due to illness causing recent absences.  More details will follow in the Prairie Star.

Elk County will receive $96,262 in federal funds to pay for security cameras in local schools, according to Byrdee Miller, Emergency Preparedness Manager for Elk County.

A total of $16 million will be distributed nationwide and Elk County was the only recipient in the state of Kansas to receive the School Safety funds.

The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced the grants to 128 local law enforcement agencies and municipalities to enhance school safety in 38 states. The grants were awarded Read more

Chautauqua County HomeTown Prosperity (HTP) begins its second year charting a course based on research gathered last year from community meetings, surveys and focus groups.

HTP will be rolling out the following community projects in coming months:

Leadership:  Lana Hawkins and Linda Robinette have just returned from leadership training in Wichita and will begin recruiting a working Read more

The soon-to-be-released SKT Telephone book will feature this photo on its cover following the announcement that Zack Fry of Howard had won the competition of submitted photos. Fry, who works for Mark Hall at Small Planet on Line, said he shot the picture west of Elk Falls on a country road. This isn’t the first photo by Fry to win a phone book cover competition — he took a picture of the falls near Elk Falls while he was still in high school and it became the cover art.

West Elk Play Productions, under the direction of Sedan resident Cristine Warring, will present the play “Scaramouche” on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and 14, at 7 p.m. each evening in the West Elk High School Auditorium.

The public is invited to attend the presentation about the French Revolution that includes sword fights, love triangles, nobility verses commoners, and a scoundrel named Scaramouche.

Admission to the play will be $4 for adults and $2 for children ages 6-12. Set designers for the play are Dean Baum and Linda Shilts-Baum.

WEHS students in the cast are Read more