November 2024

JEANENE H. DORAN
Children of the Middle Waters, We come to give you praise, And share the inspiration of Your wisdom and your ways.


Daylight saving time and car-deer collisions
Telescopes on Coronado Heights
Halstead wins volleyball championship
More than three decades after losing its only appearance in a volleyball state championship match, Halstead got a second chance.
Clark third at state race
Four of the top five finishers in the 2023 Class 3A girls state cross country championship meet were also in the top five of the 2024 edition. The interloper was a runner making her first appearance at Rim Rock Farm and her first at state after a two-year absence.
Vikings football loses 51-8
The Rock Creek Mustangs swamped the Smoky Valley football team 51-8 Friday at Flush.
Lessons from agriculture
As I watch farm and ranch groups in Kansas respond with aid to those affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton, I am reminded that farmers and ranchers have much to teach all of us about the value of community. When I started writing about farmers and ranchers in 2015, I began to discover their hidden qualities that create value in quiet ways.
Talk covers discrimination in housing
Historian Marie Johnson will talk at the Smoky Hill Museum about how minorities have been discriminated against for home ownership. “Redlining: Mapping Inequality” is free, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.