Prairie Lights, Holly Jolly Hesston this weekend
HESSTON – A snow storm that dumped as much as 12 inches on Harvey County on Nov.
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Fox Ridge housing plats approved
By Chad Frey Newton Kansan Neighbors of the Fox Ridge housing development who live in Covington Hills, a housing development just north of the now… Login to continue reading Login…
Kansas advocates plant seeds of new farm bill addressing needs of diverse agricultural economy
TOPEKA — Kansas Rural Center policy analyst Paul Johnson said the federal farm bill plowed about two-thirds of crop subsidies into feed grains for livestock despite the U.S.
Company seeking to build manufacturing facility in Newton
About 50 new jobs could be coming to Newton following the approval of a development agreement by the Newton City Commission on Nov.
Sand Creek Station posts big year
The lagging drought of 2023 has been good for one local business - Sand Creek Station Golf Course.
Kansas clergy place faith in state legislators embracing ‘moral truth’ of Medicaid expansion
LENEXA — Monsignor Stuart Swetland wants conversation about right to life in Kansas to encompass the reality of people suffering from inadequate access to preventative health care and prematurely dying due to lack of treatment for serious ailments.Swetland, president of Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas, and pastor of Our Lady and Saint Rose Catholic Church, said expanding eligibility for Medicaid to as many as 150,000 working poor in Kansas would be “the pro-life thing to do.” Expansion wouldn’t solve Kansas’ shortcomings in delivery of life-saving care to the needy, he said, but would be a step toward addressing moral truth.“Catholics believe that adequate health care is a right for everyone, not a privilege for the affluent,” said Swetland, a registered Republican.
‘Tis the Season of Kindness
“’Tis the Season of Kindness 2023 Advent in Harvey County,” a project of Rebecca Barrett-Fox, PhD, Director of Online Learning and Digital Pedagogy at Hesston College and Andrea Braker, owner of Community Creative Services.Traditionally an Advent Calendar has been used by children to count down the days of Christmas.
Centuries-old forests in the Midwest are struggling. Fire can help save them
DOUGLAS COUNTY – In the Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve south of Lawrence, stately oaks and hickories rise 50 to 100 feet into the air.But far below their canopy, something worries scientists.
Being thankful for kansas’s urban farming revolution
While over 80% of the land area across Kansas qualifies as rural, the population of our state—which is mostly concentrated in about 10 of the state’s 105 counties--is increasingly urban, something which geographers and political leaders and others have been aware of for decades.This urban-rural divide creates all sorts of long-term problems, especially since the state as whole is growing very slowly, both economically and in terms of population, meaning that even as Kansans gradually become more urban and more diverse, patterns of rural conservatism nonetheless continue to dominate our politics.But there are upsides to the pervasiveness of Kansas’s rural self-understanding.
New mural to be dedicated
Newton’s latest downtown mural took will be diedicated at 4 p.m.