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By: Tonya Stevenson Families pass things down, good and bad.  One of the genetic defects of our family was riding rough stock.  Mom handed that...

Protecting a sweet corn patch from marauding deer and raccoons is a constant problem for both hobby gardeners and commercial sweet corn growers. Squirrels...

By Frank J. Buchman “A cowboy’s physique changes in five decades.” Fact came home to haunt when we pulled our chaps out of the old bull-riding-gear...

"WE NEVER TASTE A PERFECT JOY; OUR HAPPIEST SUCCESSES ARE MIXED WITH SADNESS."   Pierre Corneille        Sadness just seems to be a part of everyday life...

By Doris Schroeder Going through some old papers I came across one that Ruth Neufeldt gave me a couple years ago to use sometime when...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau I recently read a public-service ad circulating by the American Academy of Dermatology that lists five ways to die...

It was Sedgwick County Fair in Cheney last week and with the heat index I believe it was the hottest fair I have ever...

The fiction of this country ‒ literal and otherwise ‒ is filled with people, usually young, who migrate to New York or some other...

I was so excited because I was going to Jacksonville, Florida to spend a couple of weeks with my sister. Once on the plane...

Several Republicans, including Jerry Moran, have dragged out that toothless whistle about closing the Internal Revenue Service, as though such an act would be...