Tag: Woodson County
As the simplest shape in geometry, triangles are everywhere, the most fundamental of connective structures beyond the line. In that sense, triangles are also indispensable to thinking, the form through which abstract concepts begin to…
Early May is the ideal time to put fertilizer on native hay meadows. Several years ago Woodson County Extension had a demonstration plot on a native hay meadow south of Yates Center. With over 15…
The sky was cloudless, passing from silver at the horizon to soft blue at the apex of the dome of the world. I was sitting next to the grave of Doyle “Bud” Neimeyer in Belmont…
I stood transfixed behind the barbed-wire fence by the side of the gravel road, watching in awe as bright orange fire snaked across the pasture in Liberty Township. The air was heavy with dancing smoke…
NEOSHO FALLS — A lengthy police chase and extended standoff ended with the arrest of a 38-year-old woman who apparently set fire to the house in which she was hiding. Law enforcement officers arrested Tava…
No matter how many times I ford the low-water crossing near Lake Fegan dam, I hold my breath. Doesn’t matter the water is only two inches deep, though it gurgles and babbles as it rolls…
Moments after arriving at one of Owl Creek’s southerly bridges, I heard them: HOO-HOO, HOO-WHAAA! WHAA! For once I’d arrived in time to witness the sunset, though obscured behind drooping trees along the riverbank, leaves…
YATES CENTER — Wintry weather made for a catastrophic day in Woodson County Wednesday, with a pair of fatality accidents occurring 11 minutes apart. Laura L. Hegwald, 47, was killed in the wreck, just south…
Halfway in-between U.S. 54 and Toronto near the banks of Cedar Creek rests perhaps the oldest cemetery in Woodson County, with its first pioneer-era grave dating back to 1857. Once called Pleasant Grove, it has…
Halfway in-between U.S. 54 and Toronto near the banks of Cedar Creek rests perhaps the oldest cemetery in Woodson County, with its first pioneer-era grave dating back to 1857. Once called Pleasant Grove, it has…
