Newsletter-Late-Week

Not even a hurricane could stop Cindy Edgerton Klopfer from celebrating with her old college teammates last fall, after all the Newton High School grad and her Emporia State team were being inducted into a hall of fame.

For months a debate in Halstead has been waging — whether or not an electrical storage facility, a B.E.S.S., should be constructed in the city industrial park.

This week four Harvey County department heads gave a picture of what loss of federal funds might mean for their departments. They discussed hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be lost either during federal budget discussions or the result of an Office of Budget Management memo and presidential order which are being litigated against.