Workmen blown apart at General Explosive plant

25 Years Ago September 12 - 18, 1996 Cherokee County 4-H’ers had a fantastic final weekend at the 1996 Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. “Going to Louisville!” is what the championship senior poultry judging team will be doing later this fall.

Legislation hotline

Up-to-the-minute information on the 2020 Kansas Legislature is only a phone call or chat away.

It’s never to early to think about end of life

Are you a person who likes to make your own decisions? Be your own boss? When something important comes up do you like to decide or let someone else make the decision? There is an important part of life where if you don’t make the decision someone else will. That is for sure. What am I referring to?

Prediabetes needs to be taken seriously

If you’re one of 88 million U.S. adults with prediabetes or one of the five or so million adolescents ages 12 to 18 with the condition, those words may mean you’re facing serious health challenges.

Galena man accused of attempted murder

25 Years Ago September 12 - 18, 1996 A number of personnel positions were filled during the USD247 Board of Education meeting.

Wondering about dust, fumes from concrete plant

Dear Editor: Good for Crossland to open a daycare, activity center. Something I’m sure the parents of the little ones in Columbus need and will use.

Junior Bickum brags about wife

Junior Bickum was bragging about his wife. He said, “Sally keeps herself young by working out in our home gym and walking for hours, shopping for clothes, shoes and jewelry, just the essential lady things.

Mostly I remember the silence

She was 19 years old, just starting her first semester of college. She had been transferred to our level 1 trauma center, intubated and in a medically induced coma. I was a third-year medical student, being introduced to the realities of medicine.

Child dies of nicotine poisoning

25 Years Ago September 12 - 18, 1996 Work is underway on the Crossland Building on the southwest corner of the Columbus city square. Workers including Ron Thomas and Don Amos are painting and highlighting the building. The Weir City Council elected George Thompson as council president.

Blessed are the peacemakers

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God.” Matthew 5:9 Peacemaking is an art, a skill, and some businesses will pay big money to employ a gifted negotiator or peacemaker. Yet Jesus himself said, that we are all to be peacemakers.