Not long ago, school board elections were low-key races, required by state law to be nonpartisan. Candidates were retired school personnel, parents or others recruited to run because they were actively involved in local schools or the community.
Water Plants Before Winter Watering now is important if soils are dry to help alleviate moisture stress. A good, deep watering with moisture reaching at least a foot down into the soil is much better than several light sprinklings that just wet the top portions of the soil.
Well, it’s trick-or-treat time again, in fact, by the time you’re reading this, it will be over. In my day, living in the country, harmless pranks were just expected, like putting live pigeons into neighbor’s mailboxes and the annual toilet paper blanketing of someone’s front lawn in the middle of the night (which today might just get you arrested for blatant waste of valuable property or something.)
Jeff and I had been back in Iola, Kansas for about three years, after being asked to leave our last church. While we were healing and restoring, lots of things happened there. We had our youngest child. I learned to play the piano. Relationships were restored that had been broken when we left the church in Iola. We even served as an interim pastor at a church in a nearby town. All while we waited and healed.
When Jeanette Klamm’s sons graduated from Basehor-Linwood High School, it left her with some unexpected time on her hands. Always being active including serving as a USD 458 Board of Education member, Glenwood 4-H club leader, as well as other activities related to her children, Klamm began making plans to build a cut flower maze in her backyard. She was inspired by a gentleman in her Nebraska hometown who built a flower maze and opened it as an agritourism destination.
Near dawn on Monday, two young water buffalo, a heifer and a bull, roamed far from home. They found a rip in the fence that a few deer had caused, and ran across a somewhat busy country blacktop.
I read recently that the cost of nitrogen fertilizer is already the single biggest expense for agriculture and that now the cost may double because nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas, which has seen a spike in costs due to its use to replace coal and as the result of damage to gas plants from recent major storms.
The USD 382 Board of Education meeting on October 11 focused on a variety of changes in staff and in continued COVID response. The meeting was kicked off by a couple of students enrolled in the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program, an enrichment program provided by the district.
The Staffrd County Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, October 27 , 2021, in the Commission Room in the Annex. Chairman Grimmett called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.
The staff and guests of the 1st Annual Quilt Show hosted by Sandyland Shepherd's Center agreed that the quilt show was a success, according to organizer Martha Cutright, co-executive director of Sandyland Shepherd's Center in St. John.