Elsie Mae’s Bed and Breakfast has expanded to include rooms above the Old Caldwell Messenger building.

Marcelyn Bangle and her husband, Dave, are busy preparing for what is being billed as “The Bangle Farm Olympics.” With the Summer Olympic Games from China just around the corner, Marcelyn  said her family decided to get in the act.

The Sumner County Appraisal announced Tuesday, staff members will be conducting what they call “17 percent Maintenance” beginning this week.

2008 Wheat Festival Medallion Hunt

New banners welcoming visitors and promoting Wellington’s downtown were put in place Monday morning.

What: City of Wellington community fireworks display
When: Friday, July 4, at dark or around 9:30 p.m.
Where: Worden Park, enter through the main entrance
How: Seating area is available, but lawn chairs are encouraged
Food: The Wellington Lions Club will offer free watermelon for a limited time

Wellington police issued a citation Monday following an accident that injured two teenagers Friday in Woods Park.

A former Wellington man had his trip to prison for bank fraud delayed Monday after argument over the amount of loss in the case caused a continuance.

Gwendolyn Slack stepped down as the chief program technician at the Farm Service Agency on Monday after 40 years of working with the local office.

2008 Wheat Festival Medallion Hunt

Twenty young girls competed on stage in four age groups during the 20th edition of the Junior Miss Wheat Queen Pageant.

The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state’s expanded gaming law in an opinion released Friday.

The names of those competing for the 2008 title of Harvest Prince and Princess have been released and the voting is now under way.

A Wellington teenager remains in critical condition this morning at Wesley Medical Center after the car she was a passenger in Thursday afternoon slammed into a tree.

A Viola woman who had been missing since Monday afternoon has been found alive and safe in East Wichita.