With the threat of a $60,000 budget deficit staring them in the face, Allen County Commissioners laid off eight road and bridge employees and ordered all weed and brush cutting in the country suspended.
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The history of Neosho Falls has just been published in a book called “Today, Beginning, Yesterday,” by Opel M. Henderson of Neosho Falls whose great-grandfather, Thomas A. McCullough, came to the area and homesteaded land west of the community. Her daughter, Terri, is a co-author.
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Two oil paintings by Iola artist J. R. Brownrigg are included in the October Area Artist Exhibit at the Stone House Gallery in Fredonia.