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Body Due to continued uncertainty surrounding COVID- 19, the Hansen Museum Board has come to the difficult decision to cancel the 47th Annual Hansen Arts & Crafts Fair as well as the Museum’s 5k Run and 2 Mile Walk scheduled for August 15, 2020.

Body SHOWTIMES • Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday: 7:00 p.m.

Body Harry and Willardene Purdum hosted a family reunion of sorts for the July 4th weekend. Five men went to three towns and at least four fireworks stands to collect enough fireworks to entertain the family gathering all day of the 4th.

Body Harry and Willardene Purdum have for years made annual visits to the family grave sites in Independence, KS. and Seminole, Okla.

Body The Kansas Department of Transportation announces approved bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects in Kansas. The letting took place June 17, 2020, in Topeka.

Body In the days of the old west, if you would look and check, You’d find a cowboy would wear a bandanna ‘round his neck. It was sometimes called a wild rag, for the bright color that it brings.

Body At the regular weekly meeting of the Rooks County Commission, Sheriff Gary Knight presented commissioners Corky Hagan and Greg Balthazor with the signed law enforcement contract with the City of Stockton. The commissioners signed the contract for the 2021 year as presented.

Body U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced Wednesday last week $3 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to three regions of Kansas impacted by the COVID- 19 pandemic.

Body The Kansas Department of Transportation began resurfacing work on 18 miles of K-9 in Phillips County Tuesday, July 21. Work will consist of a 1-inch mill and 2-inch overlay beginning at the Norton County line and ending at the U.S.

Body Cherry Time! In Kansas, cherries are in season during June and July. When we bought our first house there was a huge cherry tree in the back yard.