The Arkansas City Traveler

The Salvation Army is looking for a few good men and women willing to give the gift of themselves this holiday season and volunteer to ring the bells. Full Story »

The Cowley College Jazz Band, joined by the Cowley College Guitar Ensemble, conducted its fall concert Thursday in the Robert Brown Theatre. Audience members enjoyed six pieces of music performed by the Jazz Band and four from the guitar ensemble. Full Story »

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Cowley players, clockwise from left, Keshia Clark, Roslandy Acosta, Sarah Eldridge, Elena Berroteran, Michelle O'Dell and Kelsy Patterson celebrate. Full Story »

A passenger in a pickup truck that struck a utility pole in the IXL area sustained minor injuries early today, the Cowley County sheriff said. Melissa A. Martinez, 22, of Arkansas City, had possible minor injuries, said Sheriff Don Read. Full Story »

The Arkansas City Board of Education tonight may authorize refinancing of the local school district's outstanding bonds that were sold in 1999. The bonds were used to finance elementary and middle school improvements made in the 1990s. Full Story »

A Saturday afternoon fire destroyed 61 cotton modules and a large truck at the Southern Kansas Cotton Growers branch southwest of Winfield. A cotton module is about 9 by 9 by 30 feet. Full Story »

Lance Handlin, of Burden, got creative with a dead pine tree located on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and Pin Oak Drive in Ark City. This was the first time Handlin had done on-site carving. Full Story »

The Cowley College Jazz Band, featuring the Cowley College Guitar Ensemble, will perform its fall concert at 7 tonight, at the Robert Brown Theatre. There is no cost to attend the concert. Full Story »

The Southwestern College theatre department is preparing for its fall musical and dinner-theater production, "Myths and Hymns," by Adam Guettel, Nov. 12-15 in the Helen Graham Little Theatre. Full Story »

By JUDITH ZACCARIA Special to Action! Nobody wrote a mystery like the late Dame Agatha Christie. There's always a mix of beautiful women, handsome men, an inspector who may or may not know what he's doing, sibling rivalrya and class conflict (does the butler admire his master?). Full Story »

Warning: Video contains censored footage of a nude subject streaking during the game. Viewer discretion is advised. Full Story »

Dining out at Chinese restaurants has become difficult for Arkansas City residents in recent days. The town's two Chinese restaurants on North Summit Street both have closed for renovations. Full Story »

A Veterans Day parade, followed by patriotic tunes played by the Arkansas City High School band, are planned next week in Ark City. The parade will start at 11 a.m. Wednesday on Summit Street, starting at Washington Avenue and proceeding north to Country Mart, at Summit and Maple Avenue. Full Story »

Steve Russell, of Geuda Springs, aided by his sleeping great-nephew, Brady, cut his fall crop of field corn Thursday afternoon in his 140-acre field, adjacent to U.S. 166 near Greenwich Road, between Ark City and South Haven. Full Story »

Leaders of the "tea party" movement in Kansas are in full Glenn Beck mode. Experienced legislators like Rep. Brenda Landwehr, R-Wichita, and Sen. Tim Heulskamp, R-Fowler, should know better. Full Story »

The Arkansas City Traveler hosted its 18th annual Pumpkin Carving/Decorating Contest on Tuesday afternoon. The judges were Sydney Bland, managing editor; Marilyn Coury, circulation manager; Angel McCaslin, circulation clerk; and Tanya Schalk, advertising assistant. Full Story »

The City-Cowley County Health Department anticipates giving H1N1 vaccinations to younger students in the Arkansas City Public School District next week, a district spokeswoman said today. Full Story »

Enough progress was made on several nuisance and blighted properties last month that the Cowley County Commission agreed to deem them completed. Full Story »

A boy is taken to a helicopter to be airlifted to Wichita for medical treatment after he wrecked a van that he allegedly stole. A Dexter boy, 10, was flown to a Wichita hospital Thursday morning after he left school, stole a van and wrecked it, according to Cowley County Sheriff Don Read. Full Story »

It's really going to happen this time. Full Story »

More than $100,000 was pledged in less than one week to renovate the historical Burford Theater, as the Community at the Burford project moved closer to its $3 million goal. Full Story »

Jim Leland will perform an organ concert Nov. 3 on Southwestern's three-manual, 36-stop, two-console, three-pipe interior, 2,057-pipe Reuter organ in Richardson Auditorium on the college's campus. The organ is the largest instrument in the area. Full Story »

Two Arkansas City man were arrested Monday night after a trespassing incident in the 26900 block of 31st Road, near the Chaplin Nature Center, that may have been drug-related, according to the Cowley County Sheriff's Office. Full Story »

Three Arkansas City residents arrested last month for stealing anhydrous ammonia and conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine will appear in Cowley County District Court at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, in Winfield. Full Story »