Men’s Choir concert at 6:30 p.m. not 6:00 LINDSBORG – The Smoky Valley Men’s Choir Hyllningsfest concert will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Bethany Lutheran Church. Last we... Read more

Men’s Choir: beauty in any language The Smoky Valley Men’s Choir will present its 12th biennial Hyllningsfest concert at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 at Bethany Lutheran Church. The event ha... Read more

All the news that’s up for sale A local daily paper has launched a sparkling apparition on its front page – news sponsored by an area business. Or, as the standing logo puts it,”... Read more

In April, 1887, Susanna Salter, 27, called to order the newly elected, all-male city council of Argonia, Kansas. “Gentlemen,” she said, “the eyes of Kansas and the United States are wa... Read more

Over the decade or more that I reported local government in Lindsborg, the meetings that concerned public business were often lively, usually interesting, sometimes provocative. They were ra... Read more

Jay Inslee, Seth Moulton and John Hickenlooper have dropped out, shrinking the Democratic field of presidential candidates to 21. More will separate, and fall away, in the coming weeks. On t... Read more

Mikhail Korenman came floating back into town recently through the airwaves, a brief feature (August 10) on National Public Radio. Korenman teaches chess at the Cook County Jail in Chicago,... Read more

Terry Bullock died last week in Topeka. He was 79, retired, and was a venerable and respected state judge in Shawnee County for more than 30 years, five of them as chief judge of the Distric... Read more

June Crenshaw, matriarch of a renowned family and the venerable Shamrock Farms ranch in Kansas’ northern Flint Hills, died early Thursday, August 1, at her home following a brief illne... Read more