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The Brown County Humane Society is in need of prospective families to adopt the many animals they have - and volunteers to help at the shelter.
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The NEK Home Health and Hospice is offering Bereavement Support group sessions, free this fall.
Nebraska Medicine’s Liver and Pancreas Diseases Clinic is expanding into a new region of the state, with patients in the Falls City, Neb., area now able to meet with our experts via telemedicine. Telemedicine uses communications technology to connect patients at Falls City Community Medical …
Mary Virginia Elsbury was born on Jan. 14, 1932 to Alonzo F. a…
HIAWATHA, Kan. Mrs. Nancy (Parker) Klontz, 90 years old, depar…
HIAWATHA, Kan. Kim Ellen McQueen, 62, of Hiawatha, with family…
BENDENA, Kan. Norman R. Elliott, 86, of Bendena, passed away W…
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. Kathryn Ann Bennaka passed away peacefully i…
Brown County Association of Retired School Personnel (BCARSP) welcomed teachers and staffs of USD 415 and USD 430 back to school by delivering trays of homemade cookies and trays of meat and cheese to all of the schools and the board offices in both districts and to the special education off…
Members of the Zion United Methodist Women and guests Joyce Brockhoff and Mary Lou Moore met at Vintage Park at 9 a.m. on Aug. 1. Hazel Steely, president, welcomed those in attendance. She read the “Five Finger Prayer.” All repeated the UMW Purpose. Pastor Darlene Sheffer led in prayer for t…
Gabriel Joslin of Hiawatha, child of Jennifer and Rusty Joslin, attended Cosmosphere Camp: merits of Space this summer.
A special meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 21 at Maple Lanes is open to all bowlers and anyone wanting to bowl in the 2019-20 season.
The NEK Tractor Pullers reported the following results from their event Aug. 10 at Morrill Days:
If there was anything to be gathered from last Saturday’s beat down of the lowly Cincinnati Bengals in the Chiefs’ preseason opener, it may have been a reminder that defenses just cannot cover everyone. Last season proved that point, and this weekend’s contest showed that the offense is goin…
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The USD 415 School Board met on Monday evening, and after a series of Executive Sessions, voted to approve a 4 percent raise for classified staff and administrative employees.
Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and Adult Mental Health First Aid trainings will be from 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15 on the campus of Highland Community College located at 606 West Main, Highland, Kansas. The youth-oriented class will be held in the lower level of the Stad…
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With the first day of school less than a week away, Hiawatha teachers are reporting for duty this week.
Hospital Board Announces Petition Circulation to Get On November Ballot for Tax Support
This weekend was humid and warm. Better that than the storms that passed through our area on Thursday evening. We got lots of rain but thankfully no hail. Some fields south of Troy, some near Bendena and Denton received destructive hailstones of golf balls to baseball size. The soybean field…
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