The Farm Service Agency in Kansas has a new boss as it was announced recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that Dennis McKinney was appointed to executive director of the state agency by President Joe Biden.
Qualifying Ford County agencies have until March 7 to apply to receive a portion of nearly $30,000 in grant money recently made available through the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program.
The convenience of having a box delivered to your door with all the ingredients for a home-cooked meal makes these services hard to resist. Obviously, the pandemic has contributed to their popularity, but there are several other reasons why consumers are attracted to meal kit delivery services. They can increase one’s cooking skills, they solve the nightly “what’s for dinner?” issue, they may contribute to healthy eating and in some cases are priced competitively enough to save you money. And who doesn’t welcome a way to minimize the time and legwork involved in grocery shopping?
Dodge City High School will be sending its best of the best to the Kansas Music Educators Association All State Choir in Wichita on Feb. 24-26.
At the Tuesday, Jan. 18 Dodge City Commission meeting, commissioners approved unanimously a change to its charter ordinance to designate the city’s website as the official newspaper for Dodge City.
Christina Million used the stuff her dreams are made of to start her own business. The Sunflower Dance Company will open this fall in the lower level of the Village Square Mall in Dodge City and is now accepting applications.
COVID-19 continues to be peaks and valleys with cases throughout the community and one location it has got into, is a place designed to keep people in – The Ford County Jail. In the early part of 2020 and throughout the year when the pandemic was at its highest, Ford County Jail remained fortunate in being able to keep the virus out entirely.
WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Kansas to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms and straight-line winds on Dec. 15, 2021.
The Kansas Department of Transportation requests comments on an amendment to the FFY 2022-2025 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program document. The STIP is a project specific publication that lists all KDOT administered projects, regardless of funding source, and includes projects for counties and cities as well as projects on the State Highway System.
“You are what you eat,” is the motto that drives Shaelyn Charles from her kitchen in Ensign to the hungry mouths she delivers meals to in Dodge City. In that case, the administrator of a Facebook group called the Breaking Bread Crew is “a colorful, satisfying and delicious steak fajita with cilantro lime cauliflower rice, pico de gallo and avocado crema.” Just two years ago, however, Charles was eating poorly and drinking so much vodka her organs almost shut down.