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Arboretum to host ‘A Starry Night’

An estimated 70,000 lights are being placed by volunteers at Dyck Arboretum of the Plains in Hesston as preparation for “Prairie Lights.”And if those lights were not enough, opening night will feature a portable planetarium on the arboretum grounds, Ron Mallory will operate his Ad Astra Mobile Planetarium coming to Prairie Lights Nov.

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Publisher of raided Kansas newspaper delivers advice to journalists: ‘Make democracy great again’

TOPEKA — The editor of the Kansas newspaper raided by police last year has a message for journalists struggling with their sense of purpose.Go on the offensive.Eric Meyer, editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, delivered remarks Friday as he was inducted alongside his mother, Joan, into the Kansas Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame.“I think this is a time when we have to establish for the people of this country the fact that we are important, that we have things that we can tell them that they will want to know, that they will want to change their positions about,” Meyer said.He added, in a nod to the results of the presidential election: “Let’s not make America great again.

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