Clay Center Dispatch News Today

Of all things, The Clay Center Dispatch has been inexplicably denied by school officials here to take a team picture of the high school football team.

Seven years ago, we had a whole different idea of how crime should be reported and how we should not only address the underage drinking problem, but also, how we

A corn theft, the hand that shook presidents hands, snow parks city streetcars and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

Dec. 17, 1891: Readers of The Comet learned the results of the 1890 census. According to the report, Johnson City had a population of 4,161. In 1880, the population was 685. Dec. 17, 1903: The Clay Center Dispatch, a newspaper in Clay Center, Kansas, carried an interesting story with a Johnson City dateline. “Maj. William H. Garland, aged 94 years, is dead at the national soldier’s home here. He had shaken hands with every president of the United States except Washington. He was in th...