The Lindsborg City Council on Monday night approved spending $65,976 to help pay a $20.25 million bill for repair of damaged blades in both gas-fired turbines at a Missouri power plant that provides more than a quarter of the city’s electricity. Lindsborg is a member of the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency, one of six organizations that own the Dogwood Energy Facility southeast of Kansas City at Pleasant Hill.
At the state high school track and field championship at Wichita State University on Friday and Saturday, Smoky Valley High School’s two podium finishers were Esther Clark and Trista Spitler, who each competed in four events and each placed third in one of them. Clark ran 11:37.64 in the 3,200-meter race and Spitler hit 36 feet 11.25 inches in the triple jump.
Annual show of locally made arts and crafts The annual Community Arts & Crafts Exhibition will held be from May 30 through June 29 at the Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, 114½ S. Main.
Jessica Patterson’s grandfather served in the Navy during World War 2. Starting when she was about 10, he would take her to Elmwood Cemetery, where at least scores of veterans were buried, on Memorial Day.
The Smoky Valley girls track and field team won the Kansas State High School Activities Association Regional Championship at Pomona on May 22 and will send 16 athletes to the state meet at Wichita State University this week. Kaden Bishop from the boys team will also go.
The accountant hired for an annual audit of the city praised staff members’ bookkeeping to the City Council at its meeting Monday night. Danielle Hollingshead, lead auditor with Adams Brown, said that for one paving job worth more than $100,000 last year, the city should have required the contractor to carry a performance bond, a sort of insurance.
I recently shut myself in the pen, or, more accurately, I shut my side-by-side vehicle in the pen. It had been a long day, and Jennifer and I were feeding the cows just a little bit before dark.
Family members and friends largely filled Bethany College’s Presser Hall on Saturday evening to see Smoky Valley High School award diplomas to and send on their ways 52 young adults, who did not launch their graduation caps but did congregate afterward, in ideal weather, for hugs and pictures. The orchestrated ceremony, in which everyone read their words, covered a stately procession, a show of childhood pictures, honors, three speakers, diploma presentations, and a recessional in a little over an hour.
The Smoky Valley Board of Education on Monday night approved $72,000 for resurfacing tennis courts. This is a process that recurs about every five years, for normal wear and tear.
In 2023, the Lindsorg City Council voted to pitch in for a $24,000 countywide study of housing, which McPherson County and its municipalities could use for planning how to build. This was through the McPherson Housing Coalition and a company hired to conduct the study, RDG Planning & Design.