Kettle Queens meet
The Kettle Queens met January 30, 2024, at the home of Bonnie Kaufman.
March 2024
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New housing at Cedars for McPherson College students
McPherson College students will have a new housing option in the fall with the addition of Maxwell Hall.
Windom reduces speed limit
by Tammy JohnsonMcPherson Sentinel The City of Windom, Kansas has reduced the speed limit city wide to 20 miles per hour. Windom City Officials adopted… Login to continue reading Login…
Dare to be challenged
Are you ready to be challenged in your thinking?
The Curse of Sex Trafficking in America
Clay Center, Kansas – Along with millions of other movie-goers, my wife and I attended the blockbuster movie, Sound of Freedom.
We now know for whom the pie shell tolls
It turns out, chocolate chip cookies are a much newer invention than I would have thought.An article on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library website notes that the famous cookies were first invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield.Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, ran the Toll House Restaurant in Massachusetts, hence the enduring “Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie” name.There’s apparently plenty of debate surrounding the true lore of how Wakefield managed to create them, but that’s kind of how all of the stories of famous recipes seem to play out.Regardless, her invention has become such a part of culture that most of us probably don’t even think about them having an origin.
Gone dancin’: Lady Pups back in state for ninth straight season
For the ninth straight year and for a 29th time in the past 32 seasons, the McPherson High School girls basketball team is heading to the state tournament after the Lady Pups defeated Clay Center 68-55 Friday night in the sub-state final.In 2023, a shot at McPherson’s first state title since 2018 fell just short after the Lady Pups lost to Bishop Miege in the state championship game.
The Vine War of 2024
Dear Readers,I know we’re not out of the winter-woods just yet.
The strength of humility . . .
Despite the “no running in the hall” policy at our high school, when I dropped Algebra I in ninth grade, I may have skipped down the hall to our high school counselor’s office to change classes.
Top pole vaulter Barkdull has ties to Mac
Eighteen-year-old Bryce Barkdull spends time hanging out with his friends, playing video games, listening to music, and doing homework.