Newsletter-Mid-Week

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.

The Harvey County Commission took the first step in declaring a portion of Osage Road as a minimum maintenance road on Nov.

From pandemic screen-learning to Education School disregard for content, American schools are rapidly reducing the learning required for achieving a high school diploma or a college degree.To previously accommodate the extremely rare super-student we previously called a “Doogie Howser,” or today a “Young Sheldon,” we allowed those rare individuals to jump grades in elementary and high school and occasionally graduate college before they were eligible to drive.Then two decades ago, the “dual credit” system allowed high school juniors and seniors to go next door to sit in genuine college courses on a local campus, earning bona fide college credit that also counted toward high school graduation.

It’s not often high school students are given the opportunity to tour a nation-wide fast-food restaurant chain’s corporate headquarters, but that’s what Les Padzensky did for students last Thursday.Padzensky was recently named the Butler Community College’s, (BCC), Director of the Redler Institute of Culinary Art.