Canton-Galva High School and Junior High have released honor rolls for the fourth nine weeks of the 2017-18 school year. To qualify for “Distin­guish­ed Honor Roll,” a students must attain a grade-point average of 4.0-3.85; for “Outstanding Honor Roll” a GPA of 3.84-3.54; and for “Honor Roll” a GPA of 3.49-3.0. An asterisk (*) by a name indicates a 4.0 […]

Norma Nickelson cuts the Chamber of Commerce ribbon marking the opening of Nick’s Canton Hardware & Lumber on Main Street. Husband and business partner Nick Nickelson is to her right. Nick Nickelson and wife Norma have spent most of their years together either operating a lumberyard at various places in Kansas, or traveling coast to coast to help liquidate lumberyards. […]

As part of efforts to renovate the last Carnegie Library built in Kansas, a fundraiser at the Rex Russell’s Auto Museum south of Salina is slated for Saturday, Nov. 18. The open house and prime rib dinner to benefit the Canton library will feature 94 rare automobiles, including one of only seven 1937 Lincoln Cabriolet limousines whose most famous passenger […]

ChrisMcMannis Canton resident ‘Hometown Hero’ Chris McMannis, longtime resident of Canton, recently was recognized as this quarter’s “Hometown Hero” by The Citi­zens State Bank/Home State Bank for helping people in need. McMannis received a framed certificate and a $50 gift certificate from Trevin Prieb, market president for the CSB/HSB in Canton. According to Prieb, when McMannis is not working as […]

Storytime to begin Sept. 16 and 17 Preschoolers age 3 through kindergarten are invited to sign up for Story?time at the Hillsboro Public Library. Classes will meet Wed?nesday or Thursday from 10:20-11 a.m. and will begin Sept. 16 and 17. The program concludes Dec. 16 and 17. A $4 registration fee is required to help cover costs. Delora Kaufman, children?s […]

Hillsboro native Amy Cameli and her family pulled their car off on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 56 between Canton and Lehigh Saturday evening so she could photograph a full rainbow perched on the southeast Kansas horizon. The Cameli family, who reside in Georgia, were on the way to visit Joel Klaassen, founding publisher of the Free Press, and wife […]

? More than 4,000 graduates participated in Kansas Univer??sity?s 143rd commencement May 17. The following area students received degrees. Canton: Nicholas Wedel, doctor of physical therapy. Florence: Jeconiah Spangler, bachelor?s degree in pharmaceutical studies; Hillsboro: Aislinn Hieb?ner, doctorate in social work; Diedre Serene, Hills?boro, master?s degree in nursing; April Young, Hills?boro, bachelor?s degree in biology; Taylor Ensminger, Peabody, bachelor?s degree […]