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The United States Department of Agriculture has funds to extend the Seamless Summer Option for school breakfasts and lunches, hopefully until the end of the 2020-21 school year. This is subject to change if/when the funds run out, but as of now, Atchison County students will continue to eat free breakfast and lunch daily. No  Continue Reading »

The Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department will hold a drive-through fish and chicken fry Saturday, January 16, 2021. Carp, catfish, or chicken, fries, and cole slaw will be served starting at 5:00 p.m. Enter the fire station parking lot from the north off Hwy. 59. Your meal will be handed to you through the car window  Continue Reading »

The 89th annual Fairfax Basketball Tournament is underway. Due to COVID-19 concerns, changes have been made and guidelines put into place. Boys will play Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and girls will play Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Spectators will be limited to four per athlete. Cheerleaders will only cheer on Friday and Saturday nights. In addition,  Continue Reading »

Burlap & Bows LLC is now located at 200 N. Main in Rock Port, offering a much larger shopping space and expanded supplies. Burlap & Bows has expanded their silk flower offerings (above) and also has all types of craft supplies (below). Burlap & Bows has a large line of fun drink ware. Burlap &  Continue Reading »

There were 30 new COVID-19 cases reported in Atchison County January 4 – 11, 2021. The breakdown of cases includes: 1 female, 1 male – ages 0-9 3 females, 2 males – ages 10-19 3 females – ages 20-29 1 female, 2 males – ages 30-39 2 females, 2 male – ages 40-49 2 females,  Continue Reading »

Construction on the new club house at Tarkio Golf Course continues. The flooring was laid last year by MO Concrete, who will also do the brickwork. Dow Construction is currently building the walls. Many donors have made this possible, but more is needed.  Contact a member of the Tarkio Golf Club if you would like  Continue Reading »

A Watson resident received minor injuries in an accident January 6, 2021, at 2:25 p.m. on U.S. Hwy. 275 north of Firefly Road in Atchison County. The wreck occurred as a 2006 Ford Ranger pickup, driven by Justin G. Bodfield, 36, was northbound on 275 and crossed the center line 10 miles north of Rock  Continue Reading »

A Westboro woman was injured January 6, 2021, in a UTV wreck in Atchison County. Carol A. Sundermann, 65, was southbound on Route O, driving a 2016 Polaris UTV .25 mile south of Westboro. The UTV travelled off the west side of the roadway, came back across the road, went off the east side and  Continue Reading »

The Fairfax R-3 School Board met December 17, 2020, in the school library. Mike Lewis called the meeting to order at 6:36 p.m. Present were Sam O’Riley, Jon Graves, Chris Smith, Miles Smith, Brett Johnson, and Josh Oswald. Others present were Fairfax R-3 Superintendent Jeremy Burright, Fairfax K-12 Principal Dustin Barnes, and Fairfax R-3 Secretary  Continue Reading »

Janette and Wendell Miller of Auburn, Nebraska, are the happy parents of the first babies to be born at Community Hospital-Fairfax in 2021. Lexan Seray and Declan Tate were born January 2. For the second year in a row, Community Hospital-Fairfax (CH-F) was able to double the fun by welcoming twins as the 2021 New  Continue Reading »

There were 15 new COVID-19 cases reported in Atchison County from December 28, 2020, through January 4, 2021. The breakdown of cases includes: 1 female – age 20-29 5 females, 1 male – ages 40-49 3 females, 1 male – ages 50-59 3 females – ages 60-69 1 male – age 70-79 As of January  Continue Reading »

Conley Frieden with HK Scholz Company, Ralston, Nebraska, is working on the re-closing breaker system. This is the system that will kick out the circuit when a fault is detected, like a tree branch on a power line. This system is designed to try to re-close the circuit three times before kick-out. That is why  Continue Reading »