I missed Altoona-Midway’s home opener because of the 2:30 start time today. For me it was too late to stay up and too early to wake up. It turns out that was not the only game affected by the shortage of officials. Crest’s 8-man game with Chase County also started at 2:30. Until the WuFluContinue reading “Official shortage”
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The almost official end of summer…
is not going back to school or Labor Day, but the 100 mile yard sale the weekend after. Hundreds of people between Independence, Coffeyville and Bartlesville put out their junk. Since this did not happen the last two years, there will be lots of buyers. Unfortunately, auctions and yard sales are becoming a thing ofContinue reading “The almost official end of summer…”
Urinal Delivery
I miss my Sunday ritual of going to the Woodshed in southtown, and reading the Sunday papers while eating sausage, egg and cheese biscuits. Unfortunately there is no longer a Sunday paper to be had in town. The Urinal dropped its Sunday edition in 2010, when it switched from being a daily to a threeContinue reading “Urinal Delivery”
Urinalism is spreading
The Parsons Sun and Chanute Tribune will no longer have the scores of the local football games in Saturday’s edition because the papers are being printed in Joplin, Missouri about 100 miles away. This means they appeared in today’s paper. Meanwhile, the Independence Reporter had a front page story about last Wednesday’s Wilson County ComissionContinue reading “Urinalism is spreading”
Official shortage
Altoona-Midway crushed Chetopa 46-0 in a game that ended midway through the third quarter due to the 45 point mercy rule in 6-man and 8-man football in Kansas. They will host Waverly in a game that will start at 2:30 Friday because of a shortage of officials. Southeast Kansas has not had the problems theContinue reading “Official shortage”
High School football is here
Tonight marks the beginning of high school football in Kansas. Among the games is the first regular season 6-man game in Southeast Kansas, Altoona-Midway at Chetopa. Chetopa has announced tonight’s game is free. Normally admission is 5 dollars. Yes I am going to see this.
Urinalism
I had to make a trip into town today, so I thought I would stop by the office of our local snoozepaper, the one with a one year subscription for 25 bucks I mentioned yesterday. This is the same newspaper I canceled eleven years ago, just before they went to mail delivery. Lo and beholdContinue reading “Urinalism”
The Urinal called.
I got a letter from our local rag wanting me to resubscribe. They are offering a year (104 issues) for 25 dollars. I haven’t subscribed since they had home delivery over a decade ago. They must be desperate enough to do anything except put news in a newspaper. The paper is so bad even gettingContinue reading “The Urinal called.”
Football has arrived
The junior college season begins tonight and high schools had scrimmages last night. Scrimmages are new to Kansas, this year’s seniors played without a scrimmage their freshman year. In Kansas three or four teams play at one site. In a three team scrimmage each team runs 18 plays against each of the others. In aContinue reading “Football has arrived”
Water shortage?!? update
With the entire county in severe drought status according to droughtmonitor.unl.edu, it was surprising that no water conservation measures were taken by any of our towns. This week Caney is asking residents to use less water until we get some serious rain. Caney’s water supply is the least stable in the county so I amContinue reading “Water shortage?!? update”
Footyfried 