Low-flying airplane?

This just in (and we don't have much and what we do have is spotty).
The Washington County Sheriff's Department has been alerted by Homeland Security to be on the look out for a low-flying airplane that entered Washington County recently. However, the Sheriff's Department dispatcher said Homeland Security didn't give any further information on the type or color of plane or any other details. Evidently, they were just told to be on the look out.
Our scanner picked up at least one county department alerting their crew to be on the lookout, but no other information is available at this time. I will post updates if I hear any, but I'm doubting I'll hear much.
I know there is a very active yellow cropduster airplane operating out of the Washington County Veterans Memorial Airport and he has been working at locations throughout the county over the past couple weeks.
If you see or hear anything related to this, please call the News office or post a comment to this message.

Kurt Hassler hired as Washington City Administrator

The Washington City Council approved hiring Kurt Hassler, McPherson, as the new Washington City Administrator during a noon meeting today. Hassler is a 1990 graduate of Washington High School and is currently the Director of Public Works for the City of McPherson. He is married with children and the Washington City Council said Hassler will likely start in the Washington position in about 30 days. A full profile is being planned for next week's Washington County News.

Another special mtg tomorrow at noon

There will be another Washington City Council special meeting Thursday at noon. I'll be there to see what they discuss.

Owen files for county commission

Brad Owen filed for Washington County Commission, District 2, on Monday. A write-up can be found in this week's Washington County News. I'm pretty excited about him filing and not just because the position formerly had no filers. It sounds like he has some good ideas, especially for an effort to put a hold on increasing the budget and taxes. At the Washington Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday, the group got into a pretty intense discussion about valuations and the local tax situation. It is no fun, in my opinion, to find out Kansas has a heavier tax burden in certain areas than compared to California. We'll have to put a focus on this and see if we can change things.

Washington City Council in exec session

The Washington City Council is in the midst of a special meeting and they are in executive session to discuss non-elected personnel. They said they didn't think there would be any announcements as a result of the meeting. I am wondering if they are getting closer to announcing a new city administrator. If they do, I will post it here and then give a fuller story in the next edition of the Washington County News.
Sorry I've been quiet with posts lately. I've taken an at-home vacation and just been generally busy here. There are a lot of great new things in the works for the Washington County News and once I start to unveil them, I'm betting my readers will be as excited as I am!

Bethlehem, Immanuel receive placements

The area Lutheran population will be interested to learn that both Bethlehem Lutheran Church, rural Greenleaf, and Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Linn, received placements during "Call Day" this week.
Bethlehem's placement, Christopher LaBoube, is a candidate from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., and he is supposed to start in late August after finishing a vicarage in Ontario, Canada.
Immanuel will receive a vicar, Richard Rikli, for one year from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. He will start some time this summer.
More in this coming week's issue of the WC News.

Beloit area damage

A insurance agent in Mitchell County said a modular home was completely destroyed and a brick house across Highway 14 from it received a lot of damage. Another house east from there was shifted off its foundation. No one was hurt that they know of.