Grocery Store

(WELLINGTON, Kan.) The owner of The Apple Market, a longtime, locally owned Wellington grocery store is closing its doors. "With added competition, and then with the downturn in the economy, kind of made it to where we had to make some choices so we decided to go ahead and close," explained owner, Tim Voegeli, who operated the store for the past 10 years. Reporter Video: Megan Strader on Grocery Store Closing in Wellington The store has a lot of longtime, loyal customers who all say they just can't believe it. Carolyn Schwabauer tells Eyewitness News, "Just last night when we got our newspaper, I was shocked.

(GREAT BEND, Kan.)  You find a lot of numbers at the grocery store.  $8, Aisle 12, 14 cents. 22 pounds of meat, and a price tag for $2.90 (or 29 if you move the decimal point). Those numbers added up to Don Damon's winning Powerball ticket. He bought it at the Customer Service counter at the Dillon's off 10th street in Great Bend. There's a lot of excitement in the grocery store. It will receive $10,000 for selling the winning ticket. And it seems all 15,000 people in town now want to buy a ticket at this lucky counter.

It's not everyday the Governor, the Homeland Security Secretary and people, packed shoulder to shoulder, show up for the opening of a grocery store. Govenor Kathleen Sebelius told the crowd, "The Greensburg model will be built across this country and you should feel very proud of that...that's a good thing. " Dillons officially dedicated their new "green" grocery store in Greensburg on Wednesday. But for people in the community, the building is more than bricks and mortar, it's a sign of how far they've come.