County tidies up traffic issues around Dodge City

    Eight buglers from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas — including a 12-year-old boy — will perform during the Echo Taps Armed Forces Day 2008 ceremony Saturday at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery at Fort Dodge.
    James Perusich, 12, of Derby will be among the buglers who perform a cascading version of the 24 notes of “Taps.” James will play the trombone to honor all veterans, but especially his grandfather, Donald Veatch, a Vietnam War veteran and a recipient of the Purple Heart.

The next time you think about hopping over to Finney County to use its landfill, your days may be numbered.
    Although only in the early stages, Ford County officials are toying with the idea of putting it on the books that if you live in the county, you can only dump at the county landfill.

When K-State's women's basketball coach Deb Patterson reflects on what her team accomplished this season, she thinks about regular people who achieve great things.
    Patterson took the Wildcats from the bottom of the conference standings in 2007 to the top in 2008, her 13th season at K-State. She also led the Wildcats to their second Big 12 regular-season title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament, where they lost in the second round to the Louisville Cardinals.

Many of the Ford County Health Department's roughly 10,000 clients may see a jump in prices in everything from vaccines to physicals.
    The proposed price increases, which echo the tighter financial situation seen by many throughout the country, comes as an attempt to meet the rising cost of supplies while still offering an affordable service, officials said.