Back the Badge BBQ fundraiser set October 7

Support Baxter Springs Police and Cherokee County Sheriff’s Reserves Saturday, October 7. A Back the Badge barbecue fundraiser is planned from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the American Bank parking lot in Baxter Springs. For a donation diners will receive a barbecue sandwich, chips and a drink.

How many grown men can fit into a Toyota Prius?

Looking Between the Barb Wire You are probably aware of how small a Toyota Prius is. It is basically a Cracker Jack Box with wheels. But you do not appreciate how compact automakers can make a car, until you actually ride in one.

Midget Gold season opener ends in tie

25 Years Ago September 10 - 16, 1998 Columbus Midget Gold third and fourth grade football team played Galena to a tie of 6-6 in the first game of the season.

You will always reap what you sow

A farmer goes out to sow his field, he plants corn. He fertilizes properly and irrigates appropriately. He tends to and cares for his crop. He reaps a harvest of corn.

There is value in talking to God

Abraham did it. Moses did it. David, Daniel, and Elijah did it as well. In fact, numerous men and woman described in scripture did it. What is “it?” Prayer. No one person within the pages of the Bible refused to pray. They knew the value of taking to God.

Truth about unpasteurized milk

Although pasteurization of milk (it’s heated to kill microbes) didn’t become widespread in America until the 1930s, Purdue University professor of pharmacy John Newell Hurty had been sounding the alarm about raw milk teeming with bacteria and toxins for decades.

Kansas Legislative hotline

Information about the 2023 Kansas Legislature is only a phone call or chat away, the State Library of Kansas reminds residents. The toll-free number for the Legislative Hotline is 1-800-4323924. Calls are answered by experienced reference and research librarians at the State Library.

Johnston Public Library Hours

Mondays 9 p.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursdays 9 a.m.-5 a.m. Fridays 9 a.m.-. 5 p.m. Saturdays 9 a.m. - Noon Masks are encouraged, but not required. 210 W. 10th, Baxter Springs.

ALS, not just Lou Gehrig’s Disease

On July 4, 1939 Lou Gehrig said these famous words at Yankee Stadium, “For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break that I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Kansas State extension has monthly programs

Perhaps you have heard and then again, maybe you haven’t heard of an organization called Family Community Education.