Noll earns 100th win with Ravens
Head Coach Sara Noll has helped lead the Maur Hill-Mount Academy volleyball program to a resurgence since taking over five years ago.
October 2024
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Polly Jones celebrates 75th class reunion
A remarkably resilient woman known by most as Polly (Jackson) Jones and by many, many others as Grandma Polly, she just recently attended the 75th anniversary of her high school graduation from Atchison High School as one of the few surviving members of the class of 1949.Polly’s lifelong resilient nature has allowed her to raise seven children as a single mom and those children eventually gave Polly twenty-two grandchildren, thirty-six great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Yost pays visit to Cultural Center
The Atchison Cultural Center was recently visited by Karen Yost, daughter of renowned artist Walter Yost who is partly responsible for the creation of the center, as well as the growing interest of arts in the northeast Kansas area.
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Nugent named 2025 Kansas Superintendent of the Year
Monday morning Atchison Public Schools’ Superintendent Dr.
Lewis and Clark reenactment to make three day stop in Atchison
A full-sized replica of Lewis and Clark’s keelboat with a crew of living-history re-enactors, will be recreating the historic expedition in 1803-06 with a voyage of 121-miles down the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska to the Greater Kansas City Area from October 3 to October 14.
Atchison to be featured in new television series of scariest homes
As a hotspot for all things spooky, Atchison is no stranger when it comes to visitors coming take part in the haunted season and this year the most haunted city in Kansas will be featured in an upcoming new national televised series.In a spin-off of the popular “Ugliest House in America,” HGTV will air an Atchison home in “Scariest Home in America” on Oct.
Raines selected for Kansas City Chiefs internship
The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas announced last week that tribal member and Benedictine College alumna Aaliyah Negonsott Raines has been selected for a one-year internship program with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League.
Nortonville resident named to new sate role
A Nortonville resident named Greta Funk was recently announced to be serving on a Kansas board designed to provide Kansans equal electronic access to state, county, local, and other public information.Funk is one of three total people appointed by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly to the board known as Information Network of Kansas Board, with the two others from the Kansas City, Kansas area.INK, was created, in 1990, by the Kansas Legislature, to make certain state residents have equal access, through use of the internet, to governmental data.The three appointed to INK were among a number of other appointments made recently by Kelly, with local residents also named to continue serving on the Kansas Pet Animal Advisory Board.Among the eight reappointments Kelly made to that board are three from the local area, including Lorilee Thomas, a resident of Jackson County’s Whiting.