| June 14 |
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I've been gone for three days, but I drove to Witchita to get some answers for my radio friend as well as picking up some supplies for Sakanas, mostly medicine refills for the elderly back home. The three Federals in place there were pretty tight lipped, I was asking about military recruitment centers, housing for the homeless and prisons. They told me to go back home and understand that my journey there and back was illegal and that I could wind up in a prison. And then I asked, where would I be (more)
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| June 10 |
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My radio popped to life today, a man from Wyoming was radioing. He was looking for directions. He told me he was a huge fan of the series I had done back in April of 2006 about state corruption in the Dakotas, he was a big fan of my insight into federal mining laws and the natural gas nightmares. He told me he had been able to find the remains of our blog and had been reading them (From MONTANA!). I told him I didn't believe him. He wouldn't say his name but that he would contact us again. (more)
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| June 1st |
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Happy June!! Well we have been planting and expecting a visit any day from our new government representatives west of us in Cheyenne. No visits though, I guess we are too small to get notice from the region. The electricity has been shaky but we haven't had a few days in blackout since late April. Planes are more prevalent, their noise no longer gathers a crowd, instead we save it for the nightmarish thumping of a vast amount of helicopters that seem to patrol the lands north of here. The dog packs (more)
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| April 27 |
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Last night a roar of plane engines at night filled the sunset and dropped hundreds of flyers on our town claiming that something called 'the Cheyenne Government' was under control and that we were under 'martial law.' I'll photograph it later today and post it so you can read it. Pretty spooky stuff. We've been up all night discussing the possibilities. The flag they're using is a variation of the USA one we grew up with and they claim they have a weekly broadcast on Mondays at 6PM.
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| April 9 |
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Planting. Planting. Planting. I want to thank all the volunteers who gave their last two weeks to the all volunteer planting rotations of 2007. The riotous farm meeting on March 19th set the stage for an eventful and backbreaking planting rush, and we can assume the same goes for other communities with plenty of land to farm and little fuel to get it done with. Lucky we still have our own hard labor to rejuvenate the farmlands of Kansas.
Here in Sakanas we've just spent a whirlwind (more)
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| Mar 17 |
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2AM. A green streak was observed in the sky yesterday heading low over the North crossroads on Darcher Road. It slammed into the Weyer property where it left a gaping hole and groundwater filled the breach. Andy Weyer was first to arrive and he reported a terrible stench and the ground was steaming without any sign of burning or carbonization.
By dawn the Constable had arrived and cordoned off the (more)
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| Mar 7th |
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Dogs Attack
Residents of Sakanas were awoken at dawn yesterday to find the Southeastern areas, mile 3 and the Tyrma Sled Run, up to the business district overrun by what appeared to be thousands of dogs. Some estimates by residents on the periphery placed the number at closer to ten thousand. Eyewitnesses, including this author, brought shovels and rifles and any light weapons that could be grabbed nearby in the early light and confronted the hoard. Some claimed there were wolves (more)
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| Feb 28th |
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Stray chickens have been walking through town for the past few days. Rumor has it they're from the Midas ranch hatchery twenty miles east that hasn't been heard from in over eight months. A volunteer will be sent to inspect. Although it was 64 degrees today, I asked Tim if the chickens that might freeze (if the temperature were to drop) would be edible. He said just thaw them and drain them within a day and they'll be tasty.
64 DEGREES!!! Is there a connection to the Atomic (more)
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| Feb 20th |
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Radios
Dan Helmond, The Marksleys, and this reporter all have hi-range radios, and since the electricity has been on we've been monitoring the waves finding not much but a few military signals, some uninteligible chatter, one has a preacher spouting biblical sayings. One came from the outskirts of Lawrence and it sounds like humans suffering from radiation poisoning, sharing or gaining advice with a doctor far away enough to avoid contamination. Unsettling but a new (more)
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| Feb 10th |
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Constable Breaks Leg. 21 degrees COLD!
Larry Powers, Sakanas's former Sheriff, now Constable-at-large, has broken his leg in a fall after exploring a burned out fire at the Cherry Ranch, out by Rt 19. The fire which appeared to have been started by lightning, burned mostly the upper house and roof before being extinguished in the torrential downfalls from two days past.
Don and Margot Cherry have not been heard from since they departed for Los Angeles (more)
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| Jan 10th |
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Deaths:
Robert Miles, 74, dies of heart failure. He will be missed by friends and family in the community. All patients with heart condictions please make appointments to see the doctor.
Mild Temps, Power Outage Feared
Temperatures reached an astonishing 54 degrees Fahrenheit early this week and are not dropping all too quickly. With residents using more power than normally to cool goods unexpectedly, the community may indeed exceed power (more)
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| January 1st |
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Martin Crouse Predicts Major Heat Wave
Martin Crouse, using his new forecasting system of lunar divination predicts a major heat-wave in the summer to come, showing temperatures that will reach far above the 100 degree mark for at least a fifteen day stretch without cooling much in the nights. Martin’s forecasts have been relatively accurate thus far, let’s hope he is wrong on this one. See you in August. All bets are on!
Jennings House Found Deserted(more)
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| Dec 25th |
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Merry Christmas to All!! And have a great holidays... 34 degrees!
Three Feds Show Up for Questioning on Christmas Eve
Three Federal agents, all of whom are unknown here in Sakanas, arrived at Town Hall Monday morning and asked to speak to five residents for unknown reasons. Their list included Robert Jost, Michael and Angela Hastings, Reg Jackson, and Karen Greenaway, none of whom were present, in fact all of (more)
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| Dec 15th |
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Billy and Kate Spiess Return Home
Tommy and his brothers, who set out a two months ago to investigate the demise of Lawrence, returned home on Wednesday. Tommy was immediately admitted to the clinic and is to remain there for an unknown period of time, due to shock, maybe poison or some kind of emotional trauma. Billy reports that they headed west on Rte 80 toward Sabetha, and began to see gruesome incidences of nuclear radiation-sick “zombies” (more)
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| Dec 3rd |
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BREAKING NEWS:
Feds seen driving around town. Or through town, nobody stopped them, we were all too shocked to do anything about it.
Three witnesses. Seen: Snow camouflage Hummers. The real kind.
SAKANAS, KS HERALD-TIPI
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| Nov 30th |
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Happy Belated Thanksgiving... Thanks to the Appel's for their generosity with their turkeys!
Peter’s Market Robbed, Vandalized
Pete’s Market was robbed and vandalized at some time on Wednesday morning. The town general/grocery store was discovered in disarray this morning by owner, Pete Newman. The windows were broken from the outside, aisles were overturned, and it appears that (more)
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| Nov 13th |
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Heavy Rains Bad for Storage, Slowing Down Productivity
While the heavy rains of the past two weeks may be excellent for our next seasons crops, they are so severe as to make it difficult for farmers to work. Unhoused or unhouseable animals are massing near trees. Many older citizens too, have been essentially ‘rained in’ and have been unable to make it into town. If the (more)
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| Oct 30th |
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Births: Mary Ashton gives delivers a stillborn child at 4.a.m. Monday morning.
Cash shortage!! Banks Vault is frozen, Alternative to Cash Developed in Town Hall Meeting...
Trouble with Writs
The current method of payment has not been working well for the community. Clerks, farmers, and residents cannot agree on fair prices for the buyers nor fair distribution amongst themselves. Says Ned (more)
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| Oct 17th |
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Dr Halpern Falls Ill
Dr. Halpern, Sakanas’ General Practitioner has fallen ill, leaving the clinic in chaos. Food poisoning is suspected, Dr. Halpern had eaten the first fall cheeses from the Corol's sheep farm. Anybody know if anyone else is sick?
Don Horton and Margot Darvnic take charge of the maintenance of Crooner Dam:
The Dam Begins Again
The Crooner Dam began its slow changeover from medium turbine to low turbine (more)
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| Oct 9th |
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UP AND RUNNING
Here we are in Sakanas, Kansas approximately three weeks after our nearest cities were hit by atomic bombs. We survived without any power or electricity, during which time many of the farms in our vicinity lost cattle, horses, chickens, pigs, and cows to the chaos that's enveloped the region. We started working again as soon as we overcame the shock of what's happened here in the midwest. We knew the coming winter would be tough to (more)
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