Fancy

I’m not a K-State basketball fan, but I’ll give credit where credit is due.

Hanover peewees win state

The Hanover White PeeWee team repeated as state champs on Saturday. Way to go!

Relay for Life

The Washington County Relay for life raised $47,657 for the American Cancer Society this weekend. There was a huge crowd there and the participants are very passionate about the event.
Were you there? What is special in your mind about the Relay?

Reader-led news

There is traditionally a bit of a open news window between fair and the start of school. I have a really long list of stories backlogged (I’ll never complete the list) but I’m under the impression that the modern news industry needs to produce stories that the readers want to read, not what I THINK [...]

Fireworks post-fourth

I heard there have been several ongoing incidents of kids shooting fireworks at houses and cars in Linn since the Fourth of July. Anyone heard anything about this? Any damage done?

Life without a land line…

So I’m considering getting rid of our land line at home. I know in the city it is extremely common for people not to have land lines in their homes any more, especially younger people. We have great reception inside our house on our cell phones and with the various calling plans most cell phone [...]

Volunteer opportunity

RSVP is looking for a volunteer to drive a local woman to her son’s GED ceremony at the Topeka Zoo at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
For more information, contact Lori Huber at 562-2154 or leave a message.

Fair crowd seems down so far

I think everyone knows I’m a big fan of the county fair. I haven’t hid that fact over the years.
So it is frustrating to see that I seem to be part of a minority with that view.
After going to the fair for the last 10 years, it seems to me that the crowd at the [...]

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Fair champions

I will list fair grand champions as I have time:
Dog – Sydney Pralle, Hanover
Rabbit – Samantha Wright, Stick-To-It
Poultry – Acacia Thalmann, Linn Livewires
Market lamb – Landon Singular, Linn Livewires (each of the Singulars have now won)
Goat – Haven Johnson, Busy Bee
Market steer – Jancee Hobbs, Lucky 4 (second time for Jancee)
Supreme Breeding Heifer – Hilary [...]

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Baseball/softball

Busy sports week!
Peewee tourney in Linn.
K-18 tourney in Clifton.
And I heard the B’s (who just won the state championship) might hold some practices in Washington.
Who won the boys coach pitch tourney? I came up to take team pictures real quick, but then went back to the Linn Picnic where my wife was watching our kids [...]