Wellington

They could barely get through the presentation. Clearly outnumbered, supporters of Wellington's proposed roundabout, at the Highway 81 and Highway 160 intersection, fielded more comments than questions. But conflict is why city leaders called Tuesday night's meeting. Held at one of the same businesses against the project. "We consider it the best intersection in Wellington and they want to make it the worst," says Shane Carroll. Shane Carroll owns Carroll Glass.

Fireworks are believed to have caused a house fire in Wellington Friday night. The fire started around eight o'clock in the 1000 block of S. Washington. Map - Location of Fire Interim Fire Chief Bill Hellard tells The Wellington Daily News that the fire was caused by fireworks. The paper reports the home no longer has a roof and there is significant smoke and fire damage to the rest of the house. No one was hurt in the fire.

(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.

A nursing home in Wellington has a unique way of getting into the March Madness spirit. At the same time it's also helping to bring something else to the residents. When residents first heard about the idea they thought it was crazy. A basketball game inside of the Sumner County Care Center dining hall. They had player introductions, cheerleaders and even a halftime show. Tami Klinedisnt brought the idea to the facility. "They thought it was crazy," Klinedinst says. "They didn't quite understand the concept of how it was going to work.

Police in Wellington say they have found a 13-year-old girl who was reported missing this morning. Police say Sydney L. Palmer was located and returned home, but no other information was released.

Wanting to curb drinking and driving is something bar owners in Wellington are trying to do. That's why they're talking about starting a safe ride program there, where people can get rides home for free. The problem is finding ways to pay for it. One option is charging a door fee on Friday and Saturday nights, and some think that's a good idea. But some bar owners are afraid that a door charge will keep customers away. They suggest funding it through a grant or charging people per ride.

An elderly woman is hit and killed by a train in Wellington Saturday morning. It happened around 9:00am in the 500 block of South Washington. According to police the woman was trying to cross a railroad when the train hit her. The train is owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe. They tell police the train was going a slow rate of speed when the incident happened. Police are still working on identifying the woman hit by the train.

The Roosevelt Education Center is need of a new roof now, but may not get one until next year. "We have one spot on the inside where when it rains, its not terribly uncommon that we have water that comes inside," explains Larry Roth. The building houses Wellington's alternative school. Years of delaying the project, because of budget issues, has the roof in rough condition. Putting a new roof on the building would wipe out the districts capital outlay fund.

One month into the Kansas smoking ban and a Wellington bar is preparing to close.  Julie Crow says her business dropped about 40% between June and July when the ban went into effect.  She's put her wait staff on notice, business may not last much longer. People spend more time standing outside Julie's Pass Time bar than they do buying beers inside.  80% of Crow's customers smoke, including herself.  And since the ban started, she's struggled to fill the stools in her bar.  "It's one thing if I run my business into the ground.

Word spread quickly across Sumner County when the the Lottery Review Board voted to put the casino in Mulvane instead of Wellington. "My daughter called and said that the casino was accepted for Mulvane," said Cathy McKerracher. She said she's happy her home town was chosen. "We're so glad that it's over with. " That sense of relief was felt across Mulvane. About 30 minutes away in Wellington, while people were disappointed, they were happier that a decision was made.

Emergency crews responded to a collision involving a train and car in Sumner County.  It happened after 2:30 near Seneca and 40th Avenue near Wellington. Authorities say a person on the scene died, but they say it was a suicide.

A Kansas boy is quickly becoming the talk of the town as the next piano man. Mason Lough, 11, made headlines when he played "Colder Weather" at the Zac Brown Band concert at Intrust Bank Arena last weekend. It's that song that's music to everyone's ears around the web. The 11-year-old has been playing piano since he was 3 years old. He started with "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and has worked his way up to some of the classics. Mason says one of his dreams came true last weekend when the band invited him on stage in Wichita to play his favorite song "Colder Weather.

A nursing home in Wellington has a unique way of getting into the March Madness spirit. At the same time it's also helping to bring something else to the residents. When residents first heard about the idea they thought it was crazy. A basketball game inside of the Sumner County Care Center dining hall. They had player introductions, cheerleaders and even a halftime show. Tami Klinedisnt brought the idea to the facility. "They thought it was crazy," Klinedinst says. "They didn't quite understand the concept of how it was going to work.

For seven weeks, Wellington High School teacher Mike Wilmoth worked as a replacement referee in the NFL. And he's sad the job has come to an end. "They can take our flags away from us, but they can't take the memories," Wilmoth said. "They are never going to take that away from me " He watched Peyton Manning take the field for the first time in Denver and he made the final call in a controversial game in Tennessee. Still Wilmoth says he'd do it all again, despite the negative attention.

The 64-player bracket is set for match play at the 102nd Kansas Amateur Championship. The field completed its second day of stroke play qualifying on Wednesday in another scorcher at Newton's Sand Creek Station Golf Club. Wellington's Myles Miller and West Des Moines, Iowa's Ben Juffer shared medalist honors at 9-under 135. Miller, the 2011 KGA junior player of the year, tied for low round of the championship with a 7-under 65 Wednesday. Wellington's Miller, who'll transfer to Newman University this fall, birdied Sand Creek Station's difficult par-5 10th hole to start his round.

It was never a breeze for Phil Wylie to make his beloved Malt-O-Meal. "I was tired of taking it out, stirring it and putting it back in, taking it back out, stirring it," Wylie says.  "And I still ended up with lumps, and I don't like lumps in my Malt-O-Meal!" Then, this Wellington man came up with a solution. "I've had a number of engineers look at it and shake their head and say, who would have ever thought it would have been that easy?" Wylie says.

Ood Stalcup started writing "Princess Lily" about two years ago, it's about a five-year-old girl and her single father. She was inspired to write the book after seeing the relationship a friend of hers had with his daughter. She said she wanted to buy him a children's book about a single father and daughter, but couldn't find one, so she wrote her own "I searched and searched and I did not find one," she explains. "I looked on websites, different places, I visited many bookstores, I didn't not find one. So I thought ok I make a note and it became a book.

Wellington High School English teacher Patricia Barnard knows firsthand how tight the school district's budget is. “I already have to buy all my teaching supplies,” Barnard said. Now because of a computer error, she fears many in the school district could lose their jobs. “This is something that needs to be investigated. We need to know what happened,” she said. Sumner County officials admit to the mistake. They claim to have over-paid the school district about $380,000 and say it was because of a software switch.

People in Wellington vote to leave things they way they are. The City will not require a prescription for some over-the-counter cold medicines. Under a Kansas law enacted to fight meth makers, drugs containing pseudoephedrine require an ID and a signature. The vote in wellington asked if those medications should require a doctor's prescription. Unofficial results according to The Wellington News show-about 900 people voted and three-quarters of those voting didn't want the change.

A 23-year-old man is now charged in the death of a Wellington toddler.  Police say Spencer Weikal is the boyfriend of the child's mother. Weikal was charged Friday in Sumner County with First Degree Murder, Child Abuse and Aggravated Child Endangerment in the death of 2 year-old Larissa Foster. Eyewitness News spoke Friday with the familes involved in the case. Weikal's mother says her son is innocent and couldn't possibly have hurt or killed Larissa.  "He takes care of her and treated her like she was his own child," said Weikal's mother, Lori Armstrong.  Armstrong said the whole truth hasn't been told yet.  Larissa's grandmother, Debbie Murphy, said she didn't want to talk about how the child died and only wanted to focus on planning Larissa's funeral.