WaKeeney, Kansas

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• Red Cross to offer classes each month -,
  

  The Ellis County chapter of the American Red Cross soon will begin teaching potentially life-saving skills on a monthly basis.

• Trego County selects name but has yet to own nursing home -,
  

  Trego County commissioners on the last day of 2008 -- a year filled with hand-wringing over the purchase of the financially troubled Lutheran Home -- selected the name out of the 37 submitted by Trego County ...

• WIBW-TV wants fees for airing its broadcast
  

  More northeast Kansans are being threatened with the loss of WIBW-TV programming on Jan.

• Kansas drilling firms on edge but surviving
  

  Gary Talbott understands the volatility of the oil drilling business. "I came into it in 1981 as a mud engineer and thought it was the greatest job in the world," Talbott said Wednesday.

• Brownback lightens up with students -,
  

  As part of a year-long tour of all 105 Kansas counties, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., made appearances in several northwestern parts of the state during the past two days, including a stop in WaKeeney to ...

• WaKeeney to have 58th annual Christmas City program
  

  The 58th Annual Christmas City of the High Plains is Nov. 29 through Jan. 1 in WaKeeney.

• KDOT increases travel resources
  

  When travelers take to the road this winter in Kansas, they will have the benefit of new traveler information resources to assist them in safely reaching their destinations, according to the Kansas Department ...

• WaKeeney Celebrates 58th Anniversary as "Christmas City of the High Plains"
  

  For the past 58 years the "Christmas City of the High Plains" has been an annual holiday tradition in WaKeeney, Kansas.

• Come in, take a seat -- and have a bite to eat -,
  

  "We like to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary," said Diane Wagner, owner of WaKeeney's new restaurant, Goodies Galore.

• Bond reduction denied for officer -,
  

  A request to reduce the amount of the bond for a former WaKeeney policemen now charged with aggravated assault was denied Friday by District Judge Ed Bouker.

• Attorney focus of complaint -,
  

  A formal ethics complaint against WaKeeney attorney Dave Harding is expected to be filed in December by the Kansas Board of Discipline of Attorneys.

• Blizzard fails to materialize in northwest Kansas
  

  As the survivors of the Great October Blizzard of Ought-8 began digging out Thursday morning across northwest Kansas, they found ... an inch or so of snow here, no snow there, and elsewhere somewhere in ...

• WaKeeney police officer arrested -,
  

  A WaKeeney police officer remains in the Trego County jail pending the filing of aggravated assault charges.

• Wakeeney Police Officer Arrested and Suspended
  

  A western Kansas police officer is on suspension until an investigation into what happened Monday night is complete.

• City of WaKeeney exploring possibilities of using sheriff's deputies -,
  

  The possibility of Trego County sheriff's deputies patrolling the streets of WaKeeney remains alive.

• Flood Warning: Nebraska
  

  Watches, Warnings & Advisories Local weather forecast by "City, St" or zip code One product issued by NWS for: 6 Miles E Trego Center KS ...

• One man, one band -,
  

  One man, one band By DIANE GASPER-O'BRIEN dobrien@dailynews.net Solitaire is the name of his band.

• Turmoil prompts WaKeeney chief to launch write-in campaign -,
  

  Turmoil prompts WaKeeney chief to launch write-in campaign By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net WaKEENEY -- Longtime WaKeeney Police Chief Terry Eberle is waging a write-in campaign to become Trego County sheriff.

• Weddings
  

  Erica Hemmert and Robert Haude were married May 24 at First Mennonite Brethren Church in Wichita.

City Description

WaKeeney is a city in Trego County, Kansas, United States. The population was 1,924 at the 2000 census. It has been the county seat of Trego County since its founding in 1879 along the Kansas Pacific Railway line. The site of the city of WaKeeney was selected in 1877 and surveyed in 1878 by Warren, Keeney & Co., run by Albert Warren and James Keeney, for whom the town is named. Its public sobriquets are "The Queen City of the High Plains" and "The Christmas City of the High Plains". The train depot, built in 1879 with Saline River and Big Creek limestone, was the first major building in the town. It was inaugurated on July 4th of that year, with officials from Warren, Keeney and the Kansas governor in attendance. Union Pacific later acquired the depot and used it until the 1930s. The Opera House was the next major building, completed in 1884 with ceiling murals, a Rochester electric brass chandelier, and seating for 400. It was destroyed by fire the following year. The Trego County Courthouse, constructed of Trego County hard stone and Manhattan stone, was designed by Topeka architect George R. Ropes in the Queen Anne style, with a 100-ft cupola and European tin roof which lasted

City Contained By:

• Trego County
• Kansas

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 4.40297978757 km squared

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