November 2024

More than three decades after losing its only appearance in a volleyball state championship match, Halstead got a second chance.

Four of the top five finishers in the 2023 Class 3A girls state cross country championship meet were also in the top five of the 2024 edition. The interloper was a runner making her first appearance at Rim Rock Farm and her first at state after a two-year absence.

As I watch farm and ranch groups in Kansas respond with aid to those affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton, I am reminded that farmers and ranchers have much to teach all of us about the value of community. When I started writing about farmers and ranchers in 2015, I began to discover their hidden qualities that create value in quiet ways.

Historian Marie Johnson will talk at the Smoky Hill Museum about how minorities have been discriminated against for home ownership. “Redlining: Mapping Inequality” is free, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Kansas State University Salina will host discussion of artificial intelligence at 11:30 a.m.Thursday in the school’s Center Conference Room, 2310 Centennial Road.

TOPEKA –A wide majority of Kansans support legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, but a group of legislators assigned to weigh medical marijuana legalization declined to push the issue in the 2025 session.

Local historian Tim Stewart will talk Tuesday evening about the physicians who treated the settler families of the Lindsborg area. The talk will be at 7:30 p.m.