Monday, January 12, 2026

Blogs

A Plow With Crank Levers Survives On Shank Farm

Richard Shank Columnist 1950, the dawn of the second half of the 20th century, all seemed well on the Shank farm near New Cambria, Kansas, where...

Lettuce Eat Local: It’s offally interesting

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local   I should warn you now, this is going to be an awful article. No wait, I mean offal. Although there’s clearly...

Woodpeckers; Nature’s Little Drummers

Whether it’s fishing along a deserted stretch of riverbank, or attempting to sit motionless and silently under a tree or bush awaiting a spring...

Irritated Shopper’s

As a column writer, every week I hope for some "nugget" that I can transform into column material. Last week, I got fortunate in...

Turtle Market

On occasion I've written about unusual ways that me and my early school friends spent our time playing. One such story wuz about having gram...

Just a Little Light: Mothers

Dawn Phelps Columnist   Mother’s Day is almost here, and I found an article which is similar in structure to Paul Harvey’s 1978 speech on his “Rest...

Spring Storms & Why Some Dogs Fear Them

Jenny Long Columnist As spring rolls in, so do the familiar sounds of thunder and rain. While many of us find those sounds soothing, our dogs...

Verena and Daniel are Getting Married

It’s Monday evening and a lovely one at that. The mercury on our thermometer has crept up to eighty degrees. The laundry dried really...