The annual Michael Fensky Co-Ed softball tournament had the home field of the Hudson Wildcats hopping with 10 teams competing in the two-day event. In the final game of the night Team Alpers held off a last inning comeback attempt by the UMB team to win the championship 21-13. Money raised by the annual tournament goes to improvements at the Hudson city park.
Check back for more photos in a softball photo gallery, Friday
This is the final week for the mystery photo contest. This week the prize is a 25th Anniversary coin set provided by the St. John National Bank. The prize includes a 1980 Susan B Anthony coin and a 2005 Silver Eagle valued at over $30.
Winners can collect their prize at the St. John National Bank, or the offices of the St. John News.
Volunteers are needed to represent Stafford County by working in the county booth at the Kansas State Fair, Friday, Sept 10 - Sunday, Sept.19.
The St. John News wants to test readers’ powers of observation so we’ve designed a little contest called, “Where in the county is this?”
Each week we will run a photograph asking our readers, Where in the county is this? The clue for week 10, this is an old sign, but a new sign. Votes can be registered via e-mail or by phone at 620-549-3201.
The Jolly Workers 4-H Club took an educational trip to Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, where they were able to interact with many of the animals that live there. Above, Chase Fisher feeds a Ring Tailed Lemurs while other 4-H members look on. Other animals they were able to feed were Lorikeets (birds that resemble parrots), Giraffes and Tortoises
Financially supporting local schools can now be as simple supporting ones daily needs with the help of Kroger Inc., and Dillons Gift cards.
Chris Campbell, 13, and Paul Maxon, 11, both of St. John fill another trash bag with bottles as they volunteer some spare time to clean up the hedge row bordering the north side of NW 40th Street. The boys are taking the bottles to Great Bend to be recycled and collect some cash, but according to Chris that wasn’t their only motivation for the project.
The St. John Boy Scout Pack 354 will be collecting canned good items for a food drive Friday, Aug. 27.
Christina Halling said the troops will start collecting around 6 p.m.
The Cloverleaf 4-H Club recently went on an Educational Trip to the Sternberg Museum in Hays. The 4-H members enjoyed many of the exhibits in the museum as well as the Hays Aquatic Park before heading back home to Macksville.
It was a weekend of hot temperatures and hot cars for several Stafford County racers as the competed in the Pink’s All Out drag racing competition at Heartland Park in Topeka recently.
A second stabbing les than five days sent one Stafford resident to Via Christi St. Francis hospital with serious injuries.
Eden Valley Churches Rally in the Valley was scaled back from a full two-day event to one day with the departure of Pastor Roger Cooper, who started the Rally two years ago, but new pastor Tom Harrison said the members did a good job putting the event together.
Yellow crime scene tape cordoned off several blocks in the small town of Hudson, Thursday, as Stafford County officers, Kansas Bureau of Investigations, and local law enforcement agencies invested the scene of domestic dispute that escaladed into a stabbing.
Macksville’s city council took the first steps to demolishing some unfit structures last month publishing resolutions to tear down six structures in the community deemed uninhabitable.
With the exception of those in the serving trays, there were no chickens on Hudson’s fourth annual Chicken Ride as temperatures soared into double-digits for 67 riders departing on 25- or 50-mile routes.
Children enjoy a game of water basketball at the St. John city pool, but their days are numbered as the end of the season draws near.
The St. John News wants to test readers’ powers of observation so we’ve designed a little contest called, “Where in the county is this?”
Each week we will run a photograph asking our readers, Where in the county is this?
A motorcycle versus deer accident near St. John, Sunday, resulted in fatal injuries to Great Bend resident William Rhodes.
A letter detailing coming changes to home delivery has many St. John postal customers concerned about their mail service.
The St. John News wants to test readers’ powers of observation so we’ve designed a little contest called, “Where in the county is this?”
