Class of 1981 Reunion

 The RHS Class of 1981 is having the 40th Reunion during the Tall Corn Festival

A Child Will Lead Them

A Child Will Lead Them is a faith based home daycare owned and operated by Sarah Presley.   She is located at 42 E. Pottawatomie in Rossville.  If you are in the Rossville area and interested in day care,  be sure to check with Sarah.

William Hesse Passes Away

     William S. Hesse, 92, passed away Friday, July 16, 2021, at his Topeka home.

     He was born March 2, 1929, in Rossville the son of William L. and Ruth Hesse.  Bill was a lifelong Rossville resident and graduated from Rossville High School.  He served in the United States Army during the Korean War.

     Bill was a farmer and had owned and operated the lumber yard in Rossville.  He was a member of the Rossville Christian Church.

     On March 31, 1951, he was united in marriage to Delores M. Young in Topeka.  She survives.  Other survivors include his son, Ronald (Sharlene) Hesse, and his daughter, Rhonda (Rusty) Taylor, all of Topeka; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

  Private family services and burial with military honors will be in the Rossville Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Rossville Christian Church and sent in care of Piper Funeral Home 714 Maple Street, St. Marys, Kansas 66536

    Mr. Hesse was a member of the Rossville High School Hall of Fame.

Bomb Squad Softball (12 & U)

(2021) BOMB SQUAD SOFTBALL (12 & UNDER) | ROSSVILLE, KANSAS

Jul 08      Tractor House NT            W 10 - 0
Jul 08      OKC Knockouts               L 7 - 1
Jul 09 South Central Savage     L 3 - 0
Jul 09      Esprit Metro                     W 5 - 0
Jul 09     Tenacity Fastpitch 2009    L 5 - 3

Giants Get 6-2 Win Over As

     The Golden Giants defeated the Midwest As 6-2 on Tue night.  Haufler had 2 of the 5 hits.   Brown, Brewer, and Folmar had 2 hits each and Marquis had 2 RBIs.

Tall Corn Festival Aug. 6-8

 Rossville Tall Corn Festival is held the second weekend in August. Events will start Friday night with talent show, tall corn contest, corn eating contest along with other activities for the family. Saturday we have a grand parade at 10:00 AM with events in the Rossville city Park through out the day. At 8:00 PM we have a street dance. This is a family oriented event. Rossville also has a swimming pool and a new park for the kids to enjoy!

• Admission: none
• Days/­Hours Open: Fri 2pm‑8pm, Sat 9am‑8pm, Sun 9am‑3pm
• Address: Main Street, Rossville, KS 66533
• Entertainment: 1 stage - Local. Music
• # of Exhi­bitors: 150
• Promoter: Rossville Community Development Committee 
• Show Dir.: Mindy Fiedler

Giants Get 8-2 Win Over Lawrence

     The Golden Giants beat the Lawrence Travelers 8-2 on Friday night.  Brown and Brewer each had 3 hits and Kobuszewski had 4 RBIs,

Giants Get 15-5 Win Vs Lawrence

    The Golden Giants defeated the Lawrence Travelers 15-5 at Joe Campbell Stadium on July 8 in a 14 hit night.  Marquis and Folmer had 2 hits each.  Kade Folmer had 4 RBIs,

Golden Giants At Baldwin City (Updated)

 The Giants played a double header against the Baldwin City Blues on July 7.

The Giants won the first game 6-2 with Siefer and Stuewe each getting two hits in the 7 inning contest.    Coyne and Brewer each had 2 RBIs.

The second game of the double header was a close one with the Giants winning 6-5.  

Coyne and Folmar each had 2 hits.  Schmidtlein had 2 walks.

Sabetha Defeats Giants

   The Sabetha Bravos defeated the Golden Giants 4-2 on Tuesday evening at Guzman Field.    Each team had six hits.

Andy Burdett Life Celebration

A Celebration of Andy Burdett's Life
Rossville American Legion Post No. 31 SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 AT 4 PM EDT – 7 PM EDTAndy's Obituary can be read at: https://rossvilleksalumninews.blogspot.com/2021/06/andy-burdett-76-passes-away.html 

Midwest As Vs Giants (Updated)

    The bats were hot Sat. night at Joe Campbell Stadium,  but when the smoke cleared, the Midwest As left Rossville with an 11-10 win.   The Giants had an 11-10 hitting advantage but the As did a better job of bunching their hits. 
    Marquis led the Giants with 3 hits and 2 RBIs..  Stuewe had 3 walks.

Giants Handle Midwest As 9-3

   The Golden Giants defeated the Midwest As on Friday night (July 2)  9-3.  Batting leaders were Marquis, Buss, and Brewer with 2 hits each.

Semi Rolls West of Rossville

One person was taken to a Topeka hospital early Thursday after a semi hauling drywall rolled over on US-24 highway just west of Rossville, shutting down both lanes of traffic for much of the morning.

The crash was reported around 7:25 a.m. just west of N.W. 54th and US-24. The location was about a mile west of Rossville.

Traffic was being diverted onto other roads in the area as crews responded to the crash.

Drywall that was being hauled in the semi’s trailer unit was scattered across US-24 and into the ditches on both the north and south sides of the roadway.

Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Bryce Whelpley said at the scene that the semi was traveling west on US-24 at the time of the crash.

“For an unknown reason, it left the roadway there on the north side,” Whelpley said. “It over-corrected, overturned and lost the contents off the trailer and created quite a mess.”

Whelpley said the semi rolled “at least once,” resulting in “substantial damage to the cab of the truck.”

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol’s online crash log, the 2012 Freightliner semi-trailer was driven by Kaleb M. Toda, 26, of Topeka. The patrol said Toda had possible injuries but wasn’t transported by ambulance to the hospital. The patrol said Toda was wearing his seat belt.

A passenger in the semi, Juan Antonio Garcia, 46, of Topeka, was transported by American Medical Response ambulance to Stormont Vail Hospital with what were described as minor injuries. The patrol said Garcia was wearing his seat belt.

Whelpley said crews from Brown’s Super Service, a Topeka-based tow truck company, had been called to the scene to remove the vehicle. A tow truck had arrived on the scene by around 8:45 a.m. Thursday.

Authorities at the scene said the tow-truck company also would clean debris from the roadway.

Whelpley said US-24 was expected to be closed “for a considerable amount of time” on Thursday morning as clean-up and removal of the semi-trailer took place.

Kansas Highway Patrol officials said US-24 remained closed as of 12:15 p.m. Thursday as crews continued cleaning debris from the highway. Officials said the highway could be closed until around 2 p.m. Thursday.

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There is video available that shows the truck devastation  quite well at:

https://www.wibw.com/2021/07/01/crews-responding-semi-rollover-us-24-near-rossville/