October 2024

For Audra Miller, “it’s the little things,” in life and especially in art.The Hesston native and Bethel College graduate, now based in San Francisco for more than a decade, will highlight just that in her exhibit “SMOL” that opened Sept.

One big rainstorm won’t fix Wichita’s water shortage.Dark storm clouds that hovered over Wichita one mid-September softened the ring of cracked dirt that’s inched wider around Cheney Lake each week, but it didn’t erase the underlying problem.Kansas is in a drought.For much of the last year, Cheney Lake, Wichita’s primary water source, has drained away under hotter and drier-than-average conditions.