![]() The Parsons Police Officers Association sponsors the Osage Prairie Tour the last Saturday in April each year. Bike riders had the choice of a 15 mile ride, 40 plus or 70 on Saturday. Steve Freeman of Prairie Village just finished climbing a series of hills on Gray Road a few miles south of 24000 Road.
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![]() The Parsons Police Officers Association sponsors the Osage Prairie Tour the last Saturday in April each year. Bike riders had the choice of a 15 mile ride, 40 plus or 70 on Saturday. Jeff Ney of Olathe is starting on a big incline on Gray Road near the Big Hill Lake dam road.
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Labette County High School senior Kaysha Julich drives a pitch to center for a single in the first inning of game one of a doubleheader with Central Heights Friday evening in Altamont. The LCHS Lady Grizzlies stayed perfect by picking up 11-0 and 7-1 wins over the Vikings of Central Heights. LCHS is now 16-0 overall and will put their 12-0 record in the Southeast Kansas League on the line when they travel to Parsons to take rival PHS Thursday.
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Labette County High School senior Kelsie Goins makes contact with a pitch during a 7-0 win over Independence High School Thursday in Altamont. The hit was a big one, clearing the center-field wall and landing for a three-run homer. LCHS swept the Bulldogs thanks to a 14-4 come-from-behind win in the second game.
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Parsons High School senior and No. 2 doubles player Patrick Jacquinot returns a serve Thursday in the finals against Independence. Jacquinot and teammate Tyler Beardmore won the No. 2 doubles bracket to help Parsons win its first solo league title since 1988.
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Labette County High School third baseman Klay Weaver guns down a runner on a sharply hit ground ball to third during the second game of a doubleheader with Independence Thursday. The Grizzlies won game one 7-3 but lost the second game 12-0 against the league-leading Bulldogs.
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The Southeast Kansas League champion Parsons High School tennis players and coaches are shown. The Vikings defeated 10-time defending champion Independence by one point Thursday in Pittsburg.
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Parsons High School junior tennis player Payton Hays returns a serve from Independence High School tennis player Skylar Stacy in the finals of the No. 1 singles bracket Thursday in Pittsburg. Hays lost only two matches in five sets in a walk to his first SEK League No. 1 title. The No. 1 singles win also brings the SEK title back to Parsons for the first time since 2005 when Connor Phillips won the No. 1 singles bracket.
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![]() Jennifer Zepeda, a Meadow View Grade School fourth-grader, grabbed a handful of black sunflower seeds and let them fall through her fingers Wednesday at the Earth Day event in Parsons.
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![]() Mikiya Logan, a Guthridge School fourth-grader in Parsons, pets sheep in a pen at one of the educational stations for students at the Earth Day event at the Arvon Phillips Community Center and Forest Park on Wednesday.
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