Newsletter-Early-Week
Tree census, tree sensibility
The Kansas Forest Service last year helped take an inventory of trees in Lindsborg. The service now recommends planting more of them, because the arboreal population is aged.
Bethany hires justice, art, business professors
Bethany hires justice, art, business professors
Getting sick of noise pollution
The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And many of our uses of that energy also produce another less widely discussed pollutant: industrial noise.
June temperature near normal, rain higher
The average temperature in June was near normal, the National Weather Service said, while rain at the reporting station three miles east of Lindsborg was well above normal.
5 acres and welcome to travelers
A woman from Dallas had been laid off from her job, suffered a breakup, and seen her golden retriever die. She was moving back north.
State schools cut budgets but raise leaders' pay
The Kansas Board of Regents voted Friday to award pay raises to the leaders of five state universities and to the Regents president.
Advancing rural mental health
Born and raised on a farm in Northwest Kansas, I've seen firsthand the challenges the agricultural community faces. My parents had to fight to keep our farm, and I saw the mental and emotional toll these challenges placed on our family.Years later, I took a job as a therapist in a rural community just miles from my parents' farm.
City has rules about using fireworks for the Fourth
The city reminds residents of the rules for using fireworks to celebrate the Fourth of July. They can be lit only from 8 a.m.