An energy expert came to town Tuesday, to introduce herself to county leaders in hopes to get their blessings concerning the possibility of a new energy line passing through.

Officially on the job for a week, Public Works Director James “Jay” Harbour, of the Atchison County Road and Bridge Department, already has a plan in the making.

The non-essential Atchison County departments will not be open for regular business on Monday, Oct. 14, due to an employee training day.

James Harbour has accepted the appointment as the Public Works Director of the Road and Bridge Department for Atchison County, Jamie Madison, the county’s human resource director announced Friday.

County leaders are hopeful their creation of a new position and forthcoming hire will be on the road to fruition sometime this fall.

Atchison County commissioners will be back in town before the end of the week for the purpose of interviewing candidates to lead the county’s road and bridge department.

Atchison County commissioners have cleared the way to release the second distributions of appropriated funds budgeted for 2019 to some non-profit groups and agencies.

Although the mill levy county leaders are sending in for publication shows more than a half a mill increase, expectations are there might be a decrease in the proposed mill levy yet to come.

County leaders expect to put their pencils to the paper in effort to complete the budget for publication in the newspaper’s weekend edition.

The process toward another tax sale is within the vision of county leaders.

As of Tuesday, July 2, the pay for all citizens who answer the call to perform some civic duty has increased a few dollars more.

Emergency management plans appear to be in good shape with all checks and balances in accordance Kansas orders.

The latest assessed valuation in Atchison County is calculated for the 2020 budget year, and it appears to be on the rise in comparison to previous years.

When the recent tornado northeast of Effingham blew away six-year-old Graycie Sinclair’s trampoline, Steve and Myka Sinclair could not imagine that the ill wind that destroyed Graycie’s trampoline would also bring love, kindness, comfort, and a new trampoline.