Trapper’s Rendezvous preparing for arctic temps this weekend
Overnight lows are predicted to be about -10 degrees this weekend, the traditional weekend for the Trapper’s Rendezvous at West Park.
January 2024
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A look inside Harvey County Talk
Lance Gormley pulls off a pair of headphones and pushes himself away from the table where he has spent an hour or so talking into a microphone and operating a video camera switcher.
Dick to play in NMKSO winter concert after winning competition
Special to the Kansan For the second consecutive year, a Bethel College student is the winner of the annual Dwight Beckham Young Soloist competition (college… Login to continue reading Login…
Events calendar
Jan. 12 -14 47th annual Trappers Rendezvous, Harvey County West Park. Trapper’s Rendezvous is for All Registered Scouts BSA and Venturing Crews and has hosted… Login to continue reading Login…
Prairie Doc Perspective: The Threat in Your Bedroom
My family has a fondness for crime dramas and thrillers.
Opioid settlement money is meant to fight addiction, but Kansas gives a lot of it to police
Safe Streets, a coalition focused on preventing drug-related harms based in Wichita, applied for the state settlement funds.As millions of dollars flow into the state of Kansas from opioid settlement funds, local and statewide groups are vying for that money to address the growing opioid crisis in their communities.The money is part of national legal settlements against prescription opioid makers, distributors and pharmacies.
Abuse survivors renew push to remove age barrier to civil cases
TOPEKA — Armed with beaded bracelets and signs, a coalition of sexual abuse survivors returned Wednesday to the Statehouse to push for changes in state law that would allow them to file civil lawsuits at any age.Survivors Kim Bergman and Tess Ramirez posted at a table in the front entrance of the Capitol, pointing to younger images of themselves juxtaposed with their abuser as they argued for more accountability measures.Bergman said some lawmakers thought the issue had been taken care of in the last legislative session.“If you already voted for it, thinking that you did it all, we might as well just finish it up and get it done this year,” Bergman said.Their group, which has been advocating for changes for more than five years, worked with lawmakers last legislative session on a law that removed the statute of limitations on criminal prosecution.
State of the State: Kansas House Speaker pans Medicaid expansion, announces fight against ‘communist China’
TOPEKA — Republican legislators will guard against communist China espionage, provide tax cuts and eliminate wait times for disability services, House Speaker Dan Hawkins said in a rebuttal to Democratic Gov.
Plains Folk: Leaping at the chance for romance
“The ladies of Longton,” say press reports from Elk County in 1876, “are making preparations to hold a Grand Leap Year Ball on Monday evening, February 14.
Library happenings
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