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Eva Mae Andres

Eva Mae Andres, 91 died December 26, 2022 at Schowalter Villa in Hesston. She was born December 13, 1931 in Buhler, Kansas to John J.

Robert “Bob” Wayne Brainard

Robert “Bob” Wayne Brainard, long-time Paris resident, passed away December 27, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. He was born September 23, 1943, in Newton, Kansas to Roy and Lena Brainard.

Santa Fe gets HVAC upgrade

A portion of Poplar Street was closed on Dec. 29 for a crane to lift HVAC equipment into place for Santa Fe 5/6 Center - the work was not part of a bond issue passed earlier this year, but a project that has been in the works for a bit.

Plains Folk: Lawman Chauncey Whitney

Ask anyone to name famous lawmen from the Old West, and two names are sure to pop up immediately: Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok. Then will come Bat Masterson and Bill Tighlman, and maybe Bat’s brothers, Ed and Jim, or Wyatt’s brothers, Virgil and Morgan. After that the names come a lot more slowly, if at all. That’s not because there weren’t good marshals and sheriffs in the West; they just didn’t get the press. Or didn’t live long enough into the twentieth century to be able tell their own version of their lives, as did Earp to his biographer, Stuart Lake.