HILLSDALE — An unidentified male body was pulled from Hillsdale Lake on Wednesday morning, Sept. 11, after a fisherman reported seeing it floating in the lake.

PAOLA — District Judge Steven Montgomery knows from experience just how important it is to have a good court reporter.

Colorful outfits, bass-thumping tunes and talented performances highlighted the annual Dancefestopia Camping & Music Festival.

PAOLA – Miami County commissioners have awarded a $17,250 contract to Triangle Builders LLC of Paola to make interior and exterior repairs to the commission chambers in the County Administration Building.

OSAWATOMIE – Osawatomie’s Trails Task Force is $10,000 closer to establishing an eastern terminus for the Flint Hills Nature Trail in Osawatomie.

PAOLA — A request to rezone the Living Proof Church property south of Paola from Countryside to Commercial (C-2) has been denied.

A rural property in southeast Miami County will once again be transformed into the Emerald City during the Dancefestopia Camping & Music Festival.

Jason P. Holland, 41, soon will be sentenced for unlawfully entering a Louisburg home and assaulting its occupant a year ago.

LOUISBURG — While giving a recent tour of the Louisburg fire station, Fire Chief Gerald Rittinghouse provided county commissioners with an update on radio communications.

LOUISBURG — A recreational vehicle storage facility will be constructed on 10 acres northwest of Louisburg.

PAOLA – Renewal of the county’s quarter-cent sales tax for roadway construction and improvements will be put before voters in November.

PAOLA — Robert Randolph learned how to play the “sacred steel” guitar as a young boy at the House of God Church in Orange, N.J.

PAOLA – Miami County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Miami County Medical Center at about 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, after receiving a report that a victim was being treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.