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  The time period leading up to Christmas is my favorite time of year, but as for the big day itself, Santa Claus seems to...

    When I was working in the salon at home I could never get away from the phone. I used the same number for the...

Over the years I’ve written this column my wife has tried numerous times to get me to fan-out into genres other than the outdoors,...

The other night Jessica Mendoza, one of ESPN’s celebrity baseball announcers, referred to Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’s brilliant left-handed pitcher, as “the best player...

By Frank J. Buchman An old-fashioned steam engine will power the sawmill as one featured attraction Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24-25, for the 38th Fall...

We had a sort of surreal thing happen with wildlife here at Damphewmore Acres this past week. First off, the barn swallows who raised...

By: Tonya Stevenson As far as dates went when I met Otie, we went dancing one time before we were engaged, otherwise I went along...

By Frank J. Buchman The seventh annual Jackson County Ranch Rodeo is planned Saturday, afternoon, Sept. 24, at the Northeast Kansas Heritage Complex, south of...

Freedom of speech is an amazing liberty we have in the United States. Many countries in the rest of the world do not allow...

Watching my daughters raising their families in this totally overwhelming age of advanced technology is awe inspiring. Looking back to the “dark ages” of...