The largest first-year class in decades at Bethel College is leading the school to a slight increase in enrollment.This fall 209 first-year students enrolled, the first time the incoming class was above 200 since 2017.“It’s the largest first-year class in 40 years, since 1984,” said Eric Preheim, director of admissions.
Customers of Kansas’ largest natural gas utilities will see their bills rise slightly next month after regulators approved a rate increase Thursday.Kansas Gas Service, which serves almost 650,000 residential customers, filed a request with the Kansas Corporation Commission this spring to increase rates.
According to family lore, my father took me for my first horseback ride when I was two weeks old.
WASHINGTON — Sweeping legislation that would set food and farm policy for the next five years is in limbo, waiting for lawmakers to decide its fate after the election.The latest deadline for the farm bill passed unceremoniously at midnight on 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.
Bethel College is celebrating 50 years of social work with a theme of “Dignity, Hope and Justice.”The main event will take place during Fall Festival, Saturday, Oct.
Jimmy Carter is garnering more attention for becoming a centenarian on October 1 than he did when he was the first former president of the USA to celebrate a 96th birthday.
“Mia Bella.” Those words mean “my beautiful” in Italian.Today we’ll meet a Kansas rural-preneur who is bringing beautiful home products to her community and serving other community needs.
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.
You don’t know them, but they’ve touched lives.