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Twas the Night before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring EXCEPT that darn mouse. It chewed and it rustled so to honor my spouse I set out some traps for that darn pesky mouse.
Whisker Roundup names Dodge City’s first Mr. Mustache
DODGE CITY, Kan. (July 26, 2022) – Nearly 100 people packed the Depot Theater on Saturday, July 23, when the Dodge City Convention and Visitors Bureau hosted the first Whisker Roundup Mustache Contest. Sponsored by the Rusty Edge Tonsorial Parlor, eight contestants took to the stage to flaunt their pruned, shaped, and waxed mustaches in their bid to claim the crown of Dodge City’s first Mr. Mustache.
White House resumes handing out free COVID-19 rapid test kits
The Biden administration is once again offering Americans the opportunity to order free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests from the federal government, a program that it had shuttered amid an ongoing stalemate with Congress over additional funding to address the virus.
Chickasaw Nation, Kansas space museum team up to pitch planet name in international contest
The Chickasaw Nation and Hutchinson space museum partnered to enter a planet-naming competition, sending in two culturally significant Chickasaw names for a star and a planet outside of our solar system.
Red Beard Coffee shares the Christmas spirit
Red Beard Coffee is fully participating in the Christmas season by providing “Winter family fun all December long” at the Red Beard Extravaganza The annual Christmas-themed event kicked off Dec. 2 and has featured Josh Yarnell as Santa Claus and horse-drawn carriage rides from Strodtman farms.
Please Join Cargill in welcoming a few new faces to the Cargill Management Team!
Gerardo is a new B Shift Harvest Supervisor; he’s a humble person and likes to help others out. He loves soccer and football, his favorite soccer team is America, and his favorite football team is the Cowboys! He has 5 kids, and two granddaughters.
Kansas share of federal broadband cash in jeopardy because of ‘grossly inadequate’ map
Kansas officials worry the state will lose part of its share of a $42.5 billion federal investment in broadband expansion because the Federal Communications Commission commissioned a “grossly inadequate” map of existing services.
Company reopens most of pipeline following Kansas oil spill
The operator of a pipeline with the largest onshore crude oil spill in nine years has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture. Canada-based T.C.
Number of Kansas flu and COVID-19 cases expected to rise during holiday season
Health officials urge Kansans to get booster shots before the holidays, warning of a “trifecta” of illnesses spreading this year, including flu, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and COVID-19, and a limited number of hospital beds available to treat these illnesses. Only 10.2% of Kansans have received a bivalent booster shot, according to data provided by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.