At their weekly meeting at the Hays House, members of the Council Grove Rotary Club heard an update on the new Casey’s General Store being built at the corner of Union and Market streets.

Pinkalicious! The Musical will be performed three times this weekend at the Auditorium at CGJSHS. Times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 10 and 11 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 12.

The Council Grove/Dunlap United Methodist Church and Simpson United Methodist Church in Alta Vista have welcomed a new pastor, Taud Boatman, and his wife, Buffy, to the Flint Hills.

Adam Hodge will present the Kaw Mission Councils: 2026 Westward Expansion lecture Series “Kansas 1776” at 2 p.m., July 12, in the Council Grove United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.

Jim Ray’s cross-country bicycle ride began at the Pacific Ocean, but the Kansas portion of the trip carried a family connection.