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Arkansas City

Mostly Sunny
Temperature: 40.4 °F

Humidity: 58 %
Wind Speed: N/A mph NNW
Pressure: 30.13 "

Dew Point: 27 °F
Gusts: N/A mph ENE
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Black Friday good locally
  

  Tales of woe regarding the economy apparently have not made their way to south-central Kansas.

• Home National has become a force in the county
  

  The largest bank in Cowley County is Home National Bank, based in Arkansas City.

• Arkansas City native honored for controlling air traffic in Iraq
  

  Senior Airman Shea Wilson, an Arkansas City native, is the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing's Tuskegee Airman of the Week for Nov.

• Teaching artists display their work
  

  From 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, the Arkansas City Area Arts Council will honor local teaching artists with an opening exhibit reception at 110 S. Summit, in Arkansas City.

• Churches join forces to fight hunger
  

  Sharon Jennings lives by herself and sometimes skips meals because she doesn't like to dine alone.

• Police Notes - Police say argument may have caused accident
  

  At 10:51 p.m. Nov. 24, Arkansas City police officers were dispatched to the 200 block of South Eighth Street in response to the report of a vehicle striking a tree.

• Ark City Man Accused of Having Sex With Teen
  

  A 19-year-old Arkansas City man is in jail accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

• Oxford celebrates a country Christmas
  

  November is the time for fall festivals, Thanksgiving and community spirit. It also is the time for the 32nd annual Christmas In The Country festival scheduled for 10am-5pm on Nov.

• New librarian named for Ark City
  

  Dalene Hawthorne is preparing to move herself and two cats from Emporia to the Arkansas City area, to become library director here, she said last week.

• Man escapes injury in rollover
  

  A westbound car this morning rolled on its side after it struck a median at the approach to the East Madison Avenue underpass, police said.

• Mutual aid helps save house, antiques, pets in Winfield
  

  The quick actions of fire crews from the area helped to snuff a house fire and save the valuable antiques inside - not only from fire, but from water.

• Businesses OK with sales tax
  

  Arkansas City voters approved two sales tax initiatives in the recent election, which means starting next April people will be paying an extra penny for every dollar they spend in the city.

• Arts Council celebrates, recognizes its volunteers
  

  The Arkansas City Area Arts Council celebrated 33 years of arts programming Nov.

• Store robbery suspects have hearing postponed
  

  The preliminary hearing of four suspects in the Sept. 21 armed robbery of Country Mart grocery store has been postponed until Dec.

• Canary dog added to banned list
  

  As expected, city commissioners banned the Presa Canario dog breed in Arkansas City at its meeting Tuesday.

• Takedown Club takes five golds
  

  Ten grapplers from the Arkansas City Takedown Wrestling Club placed in the top four Nov.

• Cowley First names Hill its new director
  

  Heidi Hill has been named the economic and community development director for the Cowley First: Cowley County Economic Development Partnership.

• Wilson official winner of vote
  

  A canvass of the ballots Monday confirmed Gary Wilson's re-election to the Cowley County Commission for a second term.

• Security tightened at school
  

  Police charges are pending against five students involved in a fight at Arkansas City High School on Tuesday, police said.

City Description

Arkansas City is a city situated at the confluence of the Arkansas and Walnut rivers in the southwestern part of Cowley County, located in south-central Kansas, in the central United States. The population was 11,963 at the 2000 census. It is the second most populous city of Cowley County. The name of this city is not pronounced like the nearby state of Arkansas, but rather as "Ar-Kansas" (the final "s" is pronounced). Over the years there has been much confusion about the regional pronunciation of "Arkansas," which locals render as "Ar-KAN-zus" rather than "AR-ken-saw." Throughout much of Kansas, residents use this alternate pronunciation when referring to the Arkansas River, as well as Arkansas Street in the city of Wichita. Very few people from other states, and even much less from the state of Arkansas, use or have ever heard the anglicized pronunciation. Because of this, and for the sake of brevity, Arkansas City is most often referred to as simply Ark City. White settlers first congregated in the area where Arkansas City now stands in the 1860s. The natives referred to the place as "Nichonka," which roughly translates as "place between the waters" — a reference to the

City Contained By:

• Cowley County
• Kansas

City Contains:

• King Opera House, Arkansas

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 19.4249108275 km squared

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