It was in the early 90s, I got sick. On a Friday, I started coughing and felt like I was coming down with a cold. I needed to deliver a load in Salina on Saturday morning before I could go home. That morning I was so sick that it was a struggle to get the load delivered.
It wasn’t long after we returned home from the community concert in Dodge that the smoke alarms started beeping. “Be careful not to burn the sugar, as it burns very easily,” my wife, Kathie, quoted the recipe for jerk chicken, doing her best to smile.
I was shocked when I recently read that most people do not know their grandmother's maiden name. Part of that may be attributable to the fact that today families scatter, not necessarily finding employment in the community, or even in the same state, where they were raised. It remains customary for wives to take the surname of their husbands, but wives today are less likely to forego their given names to become a Mrs. John Jones rather than Mrs. Mary Jones, using their own given name. As an attorney, I sometimes had to prepare affidavits for women who had signed documents as Mrs. John Jones and who later needed to prove that Mary Jones was the one and only Mrs. John Jones, especially for women who survived their husbands and were left with no 'legal' name of their own.
The Pratt County Drug Endangered Childrens Alliance is hosting an informational meeting about Foster Care Q&A on Tuesday, November 2 at 4:30 p.m. at The Front Porch, located at 115 E. 4th St in Pratt.
South Central Community Foundation (SCCF) was excited to award over $38,000 in community, children’s health, teacher’s, and Pratt County Achievement Place grants to the communities of Pratt County this fall.
Mayor Aaron Stokes, and city council member Kay Unruh are leaders in Haviland. With the help of the city council as a whole, they are at the forefront, trying their best to work on behalf of the city's residents to maintain city services and utilities adequately, but some residents have complained to city hall about water and sewage bills coming in the mail showing steady increases in monthly charges.
Finding an equitable solution to what becomes of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge and its impact on the central Kansas water table is once again on the table. This week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Audubon of Kansas to honor the senior water rights of the 22,000-acre refuge.
November 2, 2021 elections are just around the corner. Those who have placed their names on the ballot in Greensburg were contacted for a chance to share information and while some chose not to respond, those who did are ready and willing to serve their community with their best efforts.
A Pennsylvania company is asking a federal court to return about $166,000 in proceeds from marijuana sales in Missouri that was seized by law enforcement in Kansas as the cash was on its way to Colorado.
In 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic brought massive uncertainty, not the least of which being an economy plunged into turmoil not seen since the Great Recession. Six months later, things were looking up — but many economists predicted a recovery that could continue to lag for some time, particularly for middle class and poor residents.