Jayhawker Days Draw Large Crowds in Williamsburg Festivities
Williamsburg residents celebrate Jayhawker Days with a two day festival including parade town dance petting zoo crafts food vendors baby show and races. Hog roast drew 250 to 300 attendees surpassing prior years while the street dance hosted about 800 guests. Roberta Crooks Roberta Crooks has attended since 1978 and notes the event brings town and families together. Nancy Stover booster club president underscores the community focus.
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Williamsburg
Charlie Gilkey
Williams Street
Gilkey
Roberta Crooks
Crooks
Nancy Stover
Stover
Jayhawker
Ottawa man electrocuted near oil leases after flood knocks line
Franklin County Sheriff reports Karl Sieg aged 65 died Friday after contacting a downed power line in a rural Rantoul oil area. He worked with Roger Maynard and Terry Ballou Jr. when the line, knocked down by flooding, touched him. Ballou and Maynard removed the line and helped transport Sieg to New Hope Church for EMS, later pronounced dead at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Sieg owned multiple oil leases in the area.
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Ottawa
Rantoul
Franklin County
Craig Davis
Karl Sieg
Labette Road
Roger Maynard
Terry Ballou Jr
Davis
Sieg
Ballou
Maynard
New Hope Church
Franklin County Emergency Medical Service
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Shrinking State Prompts Kansas County Consolidation Maps
Kansas State University professor Joe Aistrup and colleagues develop scenario maps for county consolidation as rural depopulation pressures raise questions about reducing total counties from 105 toward 23 to 33. The Nicodemus panel discusses thresholds like 75,000 residents or 3,600 square miles, with a 31 to 33 county outcome as a starting point for debate.
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Nicodemus
Joe Aistrup
Kansas
Kansas State University
Aistrup
KSU Political Science Department
Fortre State University
Ayl
John A. Harrington
KSU Department of Geology
Janis Lee
Kensington
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Ashley Houk
Rachel Seymour
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Ottawa Herald
Alexa McCurdy
Due Alstrup
KSU
Heatal Aistrup
Istrup
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