Amazing food and little known history in Southeast Kansas
The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) has secured the Robert W. Plaster Center on the campus of Pittsburg State University as the home for the conference’s 2027 and 2028 Indoor Track and Field Championships, the conference announced Saturday.
Since Harry’s in downtown Pittsburg closed abruptly at the end December, a good deal of local coffee talk has been around what will follow in this iconic space. This week, representatives of Kazoku Sushi & Hibachi, a Japanese restaurant at 1618 S. Broadway, said that will be their new home.
This week, the Little Balkans Festival Facebook page announced that because of a lack of volunteers, the organizational committee has been dissolved. On Tuesday, the City of Pittsburg announced it will organize some Little Balkans events.
The Kickstart Grant is designed to provide funding for smaller, community-driven projects that build capacity, engagement and momentum. The Impact Grant is designed to support larger, long-term investments that create permanent improvements to community assets.
Two construction projects underway within two blocks of each other in Downtown Pittsburg will positively impact students as well as the public by making services and programming more accessible by those who use it.
Pittsburg State students have transformed local history into an interactive digital experience through a partnership with the Miners Hall Museum in nearby Franklin, Kansas.
Two Pittsburg State students have taken their classroom lessons and turned them into fully operational businesses.
Ten years after the completion of Pittsburg State University’s Robert W. Plaster Center, it continues to prove itself as one of the region’s most powerful economic drivers. Now, university and city leaders are looking ahead to the next transformative project: a new outdoor track and field complex located just south of the Plaster Center.
The old Camptown Greyhound Park is getting new life as construction crews put finishing touches on what will become a major event venue in Southeast Kansas.
The City of Pittsburg held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, July 28 at 1:00 pm at Four Oaks Sports Complex to celebrate the opening of the new Johnson Family Pickleball Courts, named in honor of Pittsburg natives who became some of the world’s most decorated pickleball players.
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