Stories from Thursday, June 11, 2020

Dale C. James, age 87, resident of Kemah, Texas, died Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at Afton Oaks Nursing Home in Houston, Texas, from chronic respiratory failure. He was born June 16, 1932, in Crawford County, Kan., the son of Kenneth and Jessie Coonrod James. ...

All Uniontown city facilities are now open. There will be some additional cleaning and social distancing requirements when renting the Community Center until the reopening phases have been completed. The library is open 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. When books are returned, they will be placed in a sealed container for a minimum of three days before being returned to the shelves...

VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System (EKHCS) plans to move forward with phased approach for reintroducing services at both the Topeka and Leavenworth VA medical centers and select Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). As COVID-19 positive cases continue to decline throughout the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System (EKHCS) footprint, the organization has made the decision to implement their Move Forward and Increase Operation Plan officially on June 15, 2020...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced a nationwide extension of another key flexibility for USDA’s child nutrition programs. This waiver allows local partners, who have been working overtime serving meals to kids during the health crisis, the ability to continue serving free meals to all children – regardless of where they live – for the remainder of the summer. ...

TOPEKA – Low income and recently unemployed Kansans may qualify for phone service discounts of up to $17.02 per month with the Lifeline program. Currently more than 10 million low-income Americans, including 35,000 Kansans, are benefiting from Lifeline discounts on home and wireless phones as well as broadband...

Ellis Lee Beth, age 95, resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., died June 10, 2020, at his home. He was born Feb. 21, 1925, in Fort Scott, the son of Clifton and Edna White Beth. He graduated from Fulton Kansas High School in 1943. He lived his entire life as a farmer in the West Liberty community. ...