Congratulations to the more than 100 Emporia State University students who received special recognition by The Teachers College at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. Twenty-four received outstanding student awards and 96 students were honored for achievement of a 3.8 grade point average or higher.
According to a statement from the McPherson Police Department, McPherson police officers were dispatched to the YMCA in McPherson on Friday, May 19, 2023, at 4:45 p.m. The department responded to a call the YMCA staff received concerning a known person within the YMCA carrying a gun.
McPherson’s Fourth Annual Pride Festival is coming to the McPherson Community Building on Saturday, June 10. Tricia Warring began organizing the annual Pride Festival in 2019 when a teenaged family member came out as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Kansas Department of Commerce has selected the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum as one of just 18 recipients of a SPRINT tourism grant, out of 228 applications. The museum will receive a quarter-million-dollar grant through the State Park Revitalization and Investment in Notable Tourism (SPRINT) program, which earmarked $30 million to address the effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on the Kansas tourism economy.
Aren Trost of McPherson won the Emporia Entrepreneur Challenge (EEC) on May 3. He received a prize of $1,500 for his idea, Balance Craft Furniture and Design LLC.
Chapter AY of the P.E.O. Sisterhood met for a regular business meeting on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 1:15 pm, in the home of Denise O’Connor Munsey.
Joe Dickhudt was a Professor of Technology and Auto Restoration at McPherson College for 19 years. He is coming to The Cedars to talk about “Looking back 60 years at the Lunar Space Program and what it took to put a man on the moon.”
