by Shea Smith / photo courtesy of NCK Rodeo The 73rd Annual NCK Saddle Club Rodeo will be on July 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cloud County Fairgrounds in Concordia. Lance LaGasse, NCK Saddle Club president, said that spectator’s can expect an action-packed rodeo. “We have clown entertainment that will include an act […]

Rachel Ann Dinsmore Patterson was born November 6, 1927 to Adele (Regnier) and Ellis Dinsmore at the family farm near Twin Mounds in rural Cloud County. She attended school in a rural schoolhouse and then Miltonvale Wesleyan College. After a fire destroyed the family home, they moved to a farmstead in the Idana area. On […]

William (Bill) Cook passed away on Monday, June 29 at The Nicol Home in Glasco.  He was 93 years old.  Bill was a long-time resident of Concordia and most recently at The Nicol Home in Glasco. He retired from Cloud County Community College in 1995. Bill was born on June 7, 1933, to Earl and […]

Sister Mary Fran Simons died July 1, 2026, at Nazareth Motherhouse in Concordia, KS.  She was 92 years old and a Sister of St. Joseph for 70 years.  She was born in Raton, New Mexico, on July 1, 1934, to John and Margaret McDonald Simons, the second of four children, and was baptized Mary Francis.  She entered the […]

Della Mae Grant Hefner, age 95, died Friday, June 12, 2026 at Sunset Nursing Home, Concordia, KS. She was born February 7, 1931 in rural Aurora, KS to Elmer P. & Eva M. (Zimmer) Forgue She attended country school Dist. 37 and St. Ann’s Catholic School in Clyde. She married Wayne Grant on February 14, […]

The Cloud County Jail in Concordia, KS, has reopened after a six-month closure due to staffing shortages. The facility resumed normal operations on June 5, welcoming back staff and inmates. Training for personnel has concluded, and while staffing is nearly complete, recruitment for corrections officers continues. The community's patience during this period was appreciated.

Mary Ann Garlow was born on July 18, 1943, in St. Joseph, Kansas to Ferdinand “Ferd” and Rose (Donahoe) Derousseau. She passed from this life on June 9, 2026 at Sunset Nursing Home, Concordia, KS at the age of 82. Mary attended District #35 Country School while growing up in the St. Joseph community. She […]

Wayne Leon McClain, also known as “Mac” of rural Glasco, KS passed away on June 5, 2026 at the Belleville Health Care Center in Belleville, KS. He was 90 years old. “Mac” was born June 2, 1936 in Falls City, NE to Sterling Wayne McClain and Esther Marie Merritt. He later moved to Kansas City, […]