The County Commission conducted their usual meeting on Tuesday, October 29 with a number of approvals as well as hearing the grievances of parents disappointed with the Sheriff’s department following the loss of their son on April 28.The commission approved Kansas County Association Multiline Pool (KCAMP) as its 2025 property and liability insurance provider.
On Monday evening, the Atchison City Commission elected to send a recommendation to deny a rezoning request by Craig Ostertag back to the Planning Commission after they denied the request by a vote of 3-2 on October 2.
For the second straight year, Atchison High School partnered with Future Business Leaders of America to hold a Reality U event for eighth grades and sophomores to help them gain experience dealing with financial literacy.
Another stolen vehicle was found abandoned and burned in Atchison County Saturday morning while Tuesday morning multiple vehicle thefts were reported that the Atchison Sheriff Department believes may be related.
The Atchison County Meeting on October 8 featured a lengthy discussion about the possibility of a future sales tax on the 2025 ballot. According to the preliminary discussion with finance director, Mark A.
Atchison is one of the 31 cities in Kansas that will receive a portion of the near $31.5 million designated to assist funding 31 bicycle and pedestrian projects across the state.The city is named to receive funding support for two projects, with Unity Street Pedestrian Improvements, from 2nd to 6th Street, to be funded through nearly $814.5.
Almost a total of 2,000 came down to the Atchison Riverfront to view the Discovery Expedition of St.
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.
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.