Rebecca Harvey of Kincaid, a senior at Crest High School, is one of four Fifth District students to be appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy.
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Students living less than 2.5 miles from the USD 257 schools will not be bused by the school district starting next fall. Board of education members changed the busing threshold from 1.5 miles to 2.5 miles.
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Cora Perkins, a resident of Countryside Estates, will be 103 this month. She was born on a farm in Aliceville, attended school in the Neosho Falls-Geneva area. She and her husband, George, farmed in that same area, where they raised four children. In 1940 the Perkins moved to Iola.
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Scott Gordon is the new Extension Service agricultural agent for Allen County.
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The Classy Attic, owned by Gary and Beverly Hawk, and Jim Arnott, was featured in a brochure the Kansas State Board of Agriculture titled “From the Land of Kansas Foods.”
