
McPherson High Graduation Ceremony
The graduates take a seat prior to the graduation ceremony. Photos by Joel Muhs Senior Pierce Hamma gives a speech during graduation.

The graduates take a seat prior to the graduation ceremony. Photos by Joel Muhs Senior Pierce Hamma gives a speech during graduation.

HILLSBORO – At Hillsboro Thursday in a Class 2A state regional meet, the Inman boys won a team championship while the Lady Teutons and Moundridge boys both finished fourth. The Lady Wildcats placed tenth.

MCPHERSON – On Thursday and Friday, the three Class 1A schools of Little River, Canton/ Galva, and Elyria Christian completed in three separate Class 1A regional track meets and between the three qualified 16 athletes in individual events and three relay teams for the 2022 Class 1A state meet.

PHILLIPSBURG – As the reigning state champions in track/field, the Smoky Valley girls team seemingly have not missed a beat as they won their Class 3A track/field regional in Phillipsburg on Thursday by a whopping 40 points.
LENEXA, Kansas – After a long and competitive swim season comes to an end for the McPherson High School girls swim team, “proud” is the word McPherson head swimming coach Abby Bradstreet said after the Bullpups took sixth place when the state swim meet concluded in Lenexa on Saturday, May 21.

Clay Center, Kansas – There was once an old wise king who wrote and collected various sayings that reflected his observations of life, from youth to old age. In pondering his younger days, he wrote poetically to the those in his kingdom that were starting out in life, “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened. . .” (Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:2)

MCPHERSON – Sunday, May 22 marked a special day for McPherson College in more ways than one. The first obvious reason was that Sunday served as commencement day for the 2022 Bulldog graduates, but the second, however, came in the form of a record-breaking donation from a familiar couple.

Dear Amy: My in-laws are in town. They are staying at our apartment.

In the summer of 1999, a soft-spoken air traffic control specialist from South Dakota named Donavon Decker captured national attention when he signed on for a patient trial testing the safety of a potential breakthrough treatment for a form of muscular dystrophy.

TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas will be the first state to let foster children pick their foster parents. The goal of the one-ofa-kind change aims to let older foster children create strong connections that could help them as they age out of the state’s care.