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I loved old-time, family-owned hardware stores. They had everything you could imagine in stock and it was crammed into the narrow aisles of the...

The Gymnasium at the Mullinville High School has seen many different events over the years. The hardwood floor looks almost like it did the...

In the distraction and attraction of other issues, legislators at Topeka have forgotten that the Kansas confusion over state aid for cities and counties...

In the era of Mantle and Maris, of the Duke and Pee Wee, of Willie Mays and Larry Doby, major league baseball was a...

I'm proud to say that I was a vocational student, even though the rest of my high school looked down on us and we...

  "JUST REMEMBER, ONCE YOUR OVER THE HILL YOU BEGIN TO PICK UP SPEED." Arthur Schoenhauer   I know that those of you who are still young to the...

When you think of Kansas farmers and ranchers the words resilience and resolve come to mind. This is especially true as they look another...

One of my all-time favorite recipes from the year 2009 was the recipe I’m featuring today.  Whenever I offered to prepare a meal at...

Last week a friend who owns property along a local lake told me beavers have been making a mess by chewing and cutting down...

Trips to any public bathroom used to be a completely innocuous. I suppose I need to retract that statement when I consider the bathroom...