After retiring, Ogden and Dennis Maggard opened one of the county’s most unique businesses, Bearly Makin’ It Antiques, in 1994. The business’s Main St. storefront closed in 2022, but its iconic ...

The roughly 300 pilgrims trudging 60 miles from Wichita to Pilsen for an annual march honoring chaplain Emil Kapaun were particularly excited this year. The walk (or pilgrimage, or march, or camino) ...

Perry Gutsch will be stepping down Friday as manager at Agri Trails Cooperative at Lincolnville. Gutsch has seen many advances in agricultural production since he started at Lincolnville almost 40 ...

Probably my favorite pope was Pope Pius IX. Not many people know that as a young priest, he also served in Peru and Chile. Like Francis, he believed in “a spirit of fraternalism.” Pius IX served 31 ...

After 4½ in the Marines, Pryor returned to Kansas. Nervous about his prospects at Kansas State, he first enrolled at Salina Area Technical College, taking classes in electrical technology, before ...

Durham, population 92, doesn’t have much, but it does have perhaps the best coffee shop in the county: Main St. Café. Run by a large Mennonite family, the restaurant has a friendly staff, and its ...

Cade Gossen, a member of the Peabody-Burns FFA chapter, and Natalee Bray, retiring State Sentinel from Pike Valley, were honored. The scholarships were established in 2025 in the name of the late ...

Ben Moore, owner of Ben Moore Studios in Manhattan, Emporia, and Fort Collins, Colorado, and Christy Davis, owner of Davis Preservation in Cottonwood Falls, shared updates to the proposal that will be ...

Road Side Ranch Design, which offers clothes for men, women, and babies along with artistic shoes, caps, candles, cups, vanity license plates, placemats, kitchen towels, hair brushes, backpacks, ...

River Suite, an evening of music and dining in tents on the historic Cottonwood River bridge overlooking the waterfall in Cottonwood Falls, will begin with a cash bar at 5 p.m. June 13.

Centre FFA member Emilee Remmers won first place in Diversified Horticulture Proficiency at the Kansas FFA convention May 28 to 30. She will receive a plaque and compete at the national FFA convention ...

For all his self-criticism, Shilts will bring experience — he’s played at Chingawassa three times before — and a unique style to the Marion stage. Shilts hails from a musical family. His mother was a ...