Tag: cleanup
It is that time of year again time to rake leaves and clean-up the landscape. Leaves have been rapidly falling from deciduous trees the past few days. The manual labor that comes with raking,…
LAHARPE A team of volunteers is hoping to do some fall cleaning later this month. The LaHarpe PRIDE Committee is overseeing a cleanup day project Oct. 19. Local residents with cluttered yards filled with…
HUMBOLDT With Biblesta less than two weeks away, a team of volunteers is looking for assistance to beautify the community this Saturday. In particular, attention is being focused on the Neosho River Park on…
The Allen County High School Democrats cleaned Civil War-era graves at the Iola Cemetery Saturday afternoon. From left, Trevelle Means, a senior at Iola High School; Lyle Griggs, a senior at Bishop Seabury Academy…
CHANUTE The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism is offering a hunter education class at Chanutes Elks Lake Aug. 30 and 31. The class is free, but students must attend all sessions, and…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Hutchinson Zoo director Ryan VanZant says flooding in May covered more than one-third of the zoo. The Hutchinson News reports the zoo except for the gift shop and train …
HUMBOLDT ? It will be several months before Humboldt?s Neosho River Park is back to its pristine self. The late May flooding that enveloped low-lying areas along the river kept floodwater over much of the…
Stan Shultz, an engineer for Veterans Worldwide, rides through Iola in his Ford F-250 surveying the many yards soon to bear a sign with the company?s logo attached to it. Veterans Worldwide has been contracted by…
Cleanup efforts after a May 22 tornado in Carl Junction, Mo., are being hampered by swarms of mosquitoes, volunteers say. In addition to damage from the EF-3 winds, the area has been inundated with rain.…
