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By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.   Multicultural diversity. It’s a term with various meanings,...

A few Sundays ago, when the Royals were playing the Red Sox, Boston’s Pablo Sandoval hit a feeble ground ball toward the mound. The...

One of the things I gladly kept in the divorce was my ex-husbands longest friend. Valerie who he had grown up with and were...

By Doris Schroeder The sparkling lights of the Kansas State Fair have again mesmerized our fair city  into a galaxy of sparkling rays. Waves of...

I hear that architects are putting porches back on houses these days, although they have no idea why. Mostly for decoration I’d say. Country...

As funnies go I’ve got a good one for my readers!   Some of you may remember the column I wrote this summer where I...

One of our deer hunting properties is on my sister’s farm, and a few years ago a fledgling wild turkey population began there. I’ve...

RETROSPECTIVE "IF FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS TAKEN AWAY THEN DUMB AND SILENT WE MAY BE LED, LIKE SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER."                                               George Washington      I write this on September...

I just finished mowing the expanse of grass we manicure here at Damphewmore Acres and, while I wuz mowing, I came to the brilliant...

  My mother has been gone since 2001. We were very close, especially after she moved to Hutchinson when my father died. We did lots...