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Ask Amy: Grateful future mom worries about baby shower

Dear Amy: After many years, and with the help of prayers and science, I am pregnant and - along with my family and friends - looking forward to a celebratory baby shower. My issue is whether I must invite a narcissistic sister-in-law (my brother’s wife), or if it is appropriate to only invite her daughters, ages 10 and 14.

One City’s Fateful Clash with God

Clay Center, Kansas – There was once a valley in the land of Israel that was beautiful and fertile, teeming with people and life. But today if you go and see it, it is a barren valley. Nothing grows there. No one lives there. This is a tale of a city that once occupied that valley – Sodom.

Doris Maxine Spence

Doris Maxine Spence, 96, of McPherson, KS, passed away June 23, 2022, at SunPorch of Dodge City. Funeral arrangements are with Stockham Family Funeral Home, McPherson. (website: www.stockhamfamily.com)

John M. Helfrich

Great Bend- John M. Helfrich, 68, passed away June 25, 2022, at his home in Great Bend. He was born on November 30, 1953, in Great Bend, to Gerald & Patricia (McMullen) Helfrich. He married Connie Deines in Great Bend and they later divorced.

Bullpup football makes statement in KU tournament

LAWRENCE, Kansas – The McPherson High School football team has continued their march towards the fall season by following up their scrimmages and training camp with a seven-on-seven tournament at Kansas University on Wednesday, June 22.

Hawk Works the Challenges of Area Trash

(Another in our series of “Profiles of McPherson County Business Leaders”) MCPHERSON – In today’s ‘Profile of McPherson County Business Leaders’ we look to introduce you to John Hawk, the person in charge of our trash and recycling with the McPherson Area Solid Waste Utility (MASWU). While many do not seem to take trash and recycling seriously, John Hawk does as he leads MASWU into a future with questions about how to stay competitive and cost effective in keeping our community and county cleaned up.