Swedish Pavilion repaired, reopens After being closed for more than a year while its precarious lean was arrested, the 121-year-old Swedish Pavilion is open again at the Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum. The museum still seeks money to replace the pavilion roof.
The Bethany College men’s soccer team lost their opening game 3-1 at home Aug. 27 to Doane University. With an assist from Richard Livingston, Yandel… Login to continue reading Login…
Vaughn Davis grew up farming, and after marriage to Robert Melander she helped raise food for another 58 years before his failing eyesight brought them to live in Lindsborg. A woman who had walked five to six miles a day to get her work done – and had never learned to drive a car – now looked for in-town occupation.
HAL J. BERKLEY Hal J Berkley was born April 17, 1933, the 6th of 8 children of Howard Jackson and Paulina “Polly” Berkley. He lived almost all his life in…
ALICE MARGARET (ROLF) POTTS SALINA-Alice Margaret (Rolf) Potts was born at home near Aliceville, Kansas on October 27, 1943. She was delivered by her grandmother, a midwife. Alice passed away…
Aug. 15 Medics went to Bethany Home and took one person to Lindsborg Community Hospital.
When I talk to friends or family or acquaintances during this cursed summer of 2025, the conversation inevitably turns to the political landscape. And our exchange goes as follows.
The McPherson County Commission put six-month moratoriums on building data centers, battery energy storage systems, and hydrogen energy facilities in unincorporated areas, but some of these sorts of operations went in before the government acted, and commissioners will let them continue while the new technologies are studied for possible regulation or prevention. The moratoriums don’t apply to incorporated areas, and commissioners said that if a municipality made an “island annexation” of unconnected land, such as by a power substation, that also would be exempt, even while the county works on a new comprehensive plan for the next 20 years.
LENEXA — Leon Patton, a retired assistant U.S. attorney who once prosecuted immigrants for violent crimes, is tired of feeling shamed for supporting immigration enforcement efforts and referring to people as “aliens.”
TOPEKA — An open letter from Kansas Catholic bishops urges people to approach immigration with compassion and condemns portrayals of all immigrants as criminals — rhetoric that President Trump frequently uses.