After being on the job for 88 days, Dr. Daniel Shipp, the 10th president of Pittsburg State University, visited with the Pittsburg Noon Rotary Club on Tuesday to discuss plans he has for the university.   more

A new session of the Pittsburg Parks & Recreation Department’s Senior Bingo has begun, with several events coming up over the next few months.   more

The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next Monday, Oct. 3, at Parsons High School during a special traveling docket session. more

The Raider Sports Complex was once again swarmed with hundreds of hungry patrons all eager to devour delicious food at the annual Festa Italiana this past Saturday.   more

Naturalists, historical reenactors, and even magicians were on hand Saturday for the 2022 Prairie Jubilee at Prairie State Park near Mindenmines, Missouri. more

The Pittsburg community came together this weekend in celebration and promotion of local fine arts at the town’s semiannual ArtWalk. more

An accident at the intersection of East 570th Ave. and South 200th Street on Saturday afternoon claimed the life of 71-year-old Edward Leroy Nutt of Mindenmines, Missouri.  more

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment rescinded a boil water advisory Friday for the Neosho County Rural Water District 12 public water supply system. more

Authorities were attempting to locate a suspect Friday after a local man was shot Thursday evening at the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park, according to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.  more

One of the area’s pioneer businesses has become part of another area company, according to an announcement today.  more

The Pittsburg ArtWalk returned to downtown on Friday for its first full-scale fall event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. more

The poems are a little dark, the fiction even darker. And it’s not just the author’s interest in true crime. It’s her life story.  more

The K-State Wildcat Extension District strives to create educational and developmental programs and provide research-based information to the communities in Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, and Wilson counties, and last week, it added Michelle Broxterman, family and child development extension agent, to its team.  more

Cutline: Multidisciplinary teacher-scholar Hyeryung Hwang gives a lecture, “Barbaric Modernities,” on her studies and research in world literature and cinema, incorporating theories of imperialism and colonialism, at the Overman Center on Pittsburg State University’s campus Thursday evening. Hwang’s talk was the 29th annual Emmett Lecture, which is sponsored by the Emmett family, the PSU English Department, and The Midwest Quarterly in memory of the late Victor J. Emmett Jr., a professor of English for 23 years. more

After a brief meeting on Friday, Crawford County Commissioners Bruce Blair and Jeremy Johnson visited the sheriff’s office to view the department’s time management system, with the idea that a similar system could be implemented for other county departments.  more

After serving less than a year in the position, Fort Scott’s city manager has resigned, and the city commission this week approved hiring an interim city manager and assistant city manager.  more

CHCSEK is the recipient of a $500,000 federal grant to facilitate access to life-saving cancer screenings and early detection services, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday.  more

The Crawford County Commission seat for the Third District is up for grabs this November, with Democratic incumbent Jeremy Johnson defending his seat against the very man he took it from, GOP candidate, and former Democrat, Carl Wood. more

In the year 58 BC, the Roman Empire established the first vineyards in what is today the city of Colmar, France. more

The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced the schedule for this year’s Fly Kansas Air Tour, and one of the stops is in Pittsburg. more