Press Release / photo courtesy of Canva The Dickinson County Detention Facility has announced that effective today, July 1, inmate visitation will be video visit only. Officials say this will allow for additional, more flexible visitation hours. The contracted provider of the facility, NCIC Inmate Communications, is providing the equipment to allow for this at […]

Where is the oldest operating C. W. Parker carousel in the world? Where can a person view a collection of more than a thousand farm toys? Where can one see Wild Bill Hickok’s pistol and learn the history of independent telephone companies? These are all part of the Dickinson County Heritage Center in Abilene. Austin […]

Where is the oldest operating C. W. Parker carousel in the world? Where can a person view a collection of more than a thousand farm toys? Where can one see Wild Bill Hickok’s pistol and learn the history of independent telephone companies? These are all […]

By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University/Image: Austin Anders Where is the oldest operating C. W. Parker carousel in the world? Where can a person view a collection of more than a thousand farm toys? Where can one see Wild Bill Hickok’s pistol and learn […]

LaDonna Lorene Robson, age 82, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2026, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.  LaDonna was born on October 18, 1943, in Navarre, Kansas to Hiram and Agnes (Hartman) Sheets. She graduated from Dickinson County Community High School with the class of 1961. She furthered her education by completing cosmetology school in Salina, Kansas.  LaDonna was united in marriage to Lester Raymond Sjolander.

A man who went missing from Abilene back on June 3rd has been found dead in Solomon. According to the Abilene Police Department, The missing Abilene man who was last seen on June 3rd was found dead. According to the Abilene Police Department, 26-year-old Dominick Campbell of Abilene was found deceased on Tuesday. Dickinson County […]

by Shea Smith / photo courtesy of Canva Two brief tornados touched down in Dickinson County on Wednesday evening, one on Jeep Road between Abilene and Enterprise, and one four miles south of Woodbine, the National Weather Service confirmed yesterday. The first tornado, rated EF0 with estimated peak winds around 75 mph, touched down at […]

by Shea Smith / photo courtesy of Abilene Kansas.org The Dickinson County Historical Society is opening its annual Memories of the Prairie series this summer at the Heritage Center in Abilene starting June 13th. The series is free and open to the public. According to Austin Anders, the director of the Dickinson County Historical Society, […]