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2020 Kansas State Fair has been cancelled due to COVID-19

5 years ago By News Staff

The 2020 Kansas State Fair has been cancelled. The fair board Monday morning voted to cancel the event due to to COVID-19 concerns.

Fair authorities had recommended that Kansas join other regional states in skipping similar events this year.

The state fair contributes an estimated $74.6 million to the Kansas economy annually, according to a 2018 report by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. The economic impact in the Fair’s 60-mile radius is more than $40 million.

This will be the first time in over 100 years there has not been a Kansas State Fair.

Webster & Rooks State Lake in "Watch" and "Warning" due to Blue-Green Algae

5 years ago By News Staff

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), has issued its list of public health advisories for Kansas lakes due to blue-green algae. Included in the new advisory are: Rooks State Fishing Lake and Webster Reservoir.

The latest COVD-19 case in Rooks County Case has recovered

5 years ago By News Staff

According to a FB post Thursday morning, July 9th, from the official Rooks County, Kansas COVID-19 page, the latest Rooks County case has recovered and the county currently has no "Active Cases" at this time.

Benefit for Serenity Carpenter to be held Sunday, July 19th postponed due to COVID-19

5 years ago By News Staff

Ten-year-old Serenity Carpenter was diagnosed with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SJIA) in April of 2018 after months of fighting a fever and rash and not knowing the cause. Beginning in January of that year, Serenity would come home from school every afternoon with a very high fever and a rash that kept spreading all over her body and making her feel terrible. She was taken to many different doctors to try to figure out what was causing it, with the doctors thinking it was a virus or a post viral rash and that it would just go away in time. Serenity would go to sleep and by the next morning she would wake up feeling fine, but by the afternoon, the fever and rash would flare up again.