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Five graduating seniors received Thresher Awards at Bethel College’s annual end-of-year Awards Convocation.Awards were given in art, forensics and theater, journalism, music and social work.The Thresher is the highest academic award at Bethel, given to a graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding work overall as well as in their senior thesis or senior project.Hayden Honomichl, Great Bend, Kan., received a Thresher in theater and forensics.

WICHITA — Not long after Payne Elementary School opened near the corner of Harry and Meridian in west Wichita, it had more than 650 students.In the late 1950s, crews brought in a dozen portable classrooms to handle the overcrowding.This year, Payne Elementary is Wichita’s smallest school, with 231 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.

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According to the National Weather Service, it was a derecho that swept across Harvey County May 19 causing power outages, downed tree limbs and damage to buildings.

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MANHATTAN – The first graduates from Kansas State University’s physician assistant master’s program hope to help close health care gaps in the state.The inaugural cohort of more than 30 students received training for 12 months in the classroom and 15 months in clinical rotations at regional hospitals and clinics.Taylor Niemeier, a physician assistant student from Gove who graduated this spring, plans to return to northwest Kansas for a job with a local health care provider.“As a class, we were able to help change and mold the program to fit the needs of students,” Niemeier said.