Dear Doctors: How important is it to get the new COVID-19 booster? My husband and I are in our mid-40s and in good health. We both got the Moderna vaccine when it first came out, and we got a booster, too. What’s in this new shot? Also, is it true that it’s a good idea to switch up vaccine brands?
Bluestem Gala set for early November The Bluestem Gala will be at 6:30 p.m. Nov.
Caring Hands Humane Society hosted “Pet’ober Fest” Oct. 14, a fall festival at Caring Hands as a fundraiser Donations raised from the event will benefit the community outreach program, the Lend A Paw Fund.
With Ukraine at the top of today’s news headlines, Kauffman Museum at Bethel College will offer a long view of the region’s conflicts in two upcoming events. The museum’s next program in its regular Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum series will be Oct.
Floyd E. “Skippy” Garnett, 84, the first Black basketball player to play for Newton High School, died Wednesday (October 12, 2022) at his home in Newton He was born on January 5, 1938 in Newton, the son of Harry and Edna Rose Dickinson Garnett. A lifelong resident of Newton, he graduated from Newton High School in 1956 where he played football, basketball and was on the track team. He later attended Bethel College where he played football. Born in 1938, Garnett graduated from high school in 1956. He graduated as a champion, and with national notoriety.
Bethel College will host the inaugural symposium on aging and the senses, created by a recent estate gift to the college. The first Senses and Aging Symposium takes place Oct.
“A few years ago, there were eight or nine empty buildings along our main street. Now, it’s hard to even find an open office space downtown.” That quote comes from a businesswoman who has observed the resurgence of businesses in her community of Council Grove.
HAYS, Kansas — This town’s water problem couldn’t be put off any longer. After an especially dry year, the wells that pumped water to Hays ran dangerously low in early 1992.
The United Methodist Church, long a mainstay of the American religious scene, is beginning to fracture. Hundreds of churches have already disaffiliated from the denomination this year, with hundreds more moving toward the exits. Many plan to join the newly created Global Methodist Church, formed by conservatives frustrated by continued defiance of denominational bans on same-sex marriages and the ordaining of openly LGBTQ pastors. So far the majority of congregations are staying, but several of the largest are planning to leave. The breakup comes amid mutual accusations of hardball tactics and spreading falsehoods.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis appealed for unity in the Catholic Church on Tuesday as he marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, lamenting the divisions that its modernizing reforms spawned as the work of the devil.