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Danica Hoose, the 2012 Miss Katy Queen, crowns the 2013 winner, Caitlin Sewell, Saturday morning at the Seaton Family Pavilion in Forest Park.
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Squire Simon Billingsly (portrayed by Hunter Goddard) grabs Katie White (portrayed by Katie Hill) in a bar and demands she turn over a deed to valuable land during the opening night of “Tied to the Tracks or A Good Deed Indeed.” The melodrama written by former Parsonian Jerry James also will be presented by a group of local actors at 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Saturday in the Labette Community College Thiebaud Theatre. The melodrama is a first-time offering of the annual Katy Days festival, with most events happening Saturday in Forest Park.
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![]() Chris Bussen (sweeping), David Heitman and Chris Moore (in skid-steer loader) clean up debris after cutting down a dead redbud tree in Forest Park in preparation for Katy Days.
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Parsons firefighters and a Labette Health Ambulance Service crew work to extinguish a house fire at 1414 Appleton Tuesday night. No one was home when the fire started. The cause is under investigation. See story in Local News.
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Capping off their last day of school, consisting of fun-filled activities, Lincoln School students line up to receive flavored ice treats.
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Retiring USD 503 Superintendent Linda Proehl addresses the graduates of the Parsons High School Class of 2013 during commencement on Sunday. See story in Local News.
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Safe Haven Outreach Mission Inc. volunteer Mark Brown makes an adjustment to a makeshift cardboard house set up in Forest Park as part the organization’s annual Tent City fundraising event.
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Labette County High School freshman Justin Sexton sits under the shelter that he and fellow Boy Scouts, along with relatives, built on the playground of Meadow View Grade School with some of his former teachers, Becky Cole (left, seated), Karla Viranda (right, seated), Crystal Stevens (white shirt), Stephanie Dwyer (red shirt) and Amy Eaton (pink shirt), and PTO president Jeremie Hodge. The shelter was Sexton’s community service project that was required for him to earn his Eagle Scout badge. The PTO funded the project. See story in Local News.
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Following the men’s softball throw, Paul Walden, Bryce Commons, Nathaniel Alloway and Matt Murphy receive medals from Erie High Charter School student volunteers during the Special Olympics Kansas West track and field events that EHCS hosted Wednesday for the first time. Commons placed first, Walden second, Alloway third and Murphy fourth. Alloway attends Parsons High School, while the other three contenders attend Pittsburg High School. See story in Local News.
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Haylee Lang returns for a second time to examine a cow’s brain that Labette Community College professor Barthi Sudarsanam had on display in her classroom for third-grade students visiting during the annual LCC science day Tuesday. See story in Local News.
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