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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.

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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.

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