Kansas profiles: A true ‘ruralpreneur’
From hay to historic buildings – and parts to pies – Craig Stertz is involved in his rural community. He is what we call a ruralpreneur, an entrepreneur taking on multiple projects in his small town.
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Kansas lands a $650 million plant to make vaccines and fight biological threats
MANHATTAN, Kansas — Kansas officials announced an agreement Monday to build a $650 million biological manufacturing plant near Manhattan that will create 500 jobs. The facility in Pottawatomie County will develop vaccines to help combat biological threats.
Finding child care in Kansas was a challenge before the pandemic. Now it’s even harder
TOPEKA, Kansas — Finding child care in Kansas has become so hard that some Kansas parents now plan pregnancies around open child care slots. “They are actually trying to time their pregnancies,” said Reva Wywadis, executive director of Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas.
Award-winning Author of World War II Survivor Memoir Makes Lindsborg Appearance
Seventy-five years after the end of WWII, Mildred Schindler Janzen, 93 of Ellsworth, KS, finally decided to tell her story. Janzen was a teenager when Russian soldiers invaded their peaceful family farm in the German countryside and changed the course of her life forever.
Kelly signs bill expanding authority of Kansas advanced practice RNs
TOPEKA — The Kansas and national associations of nurse practitioners praised action by the Kansas Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly to reduce regulatory barriers to licensed advanced practice registered nurses practicing independently, including prescribing of medication without written authorization of a physician.
Not so Little: McPherson High’s Government teacher wins prestigious award
MCPHERSON – Prestigious may be an understatement on how to describe the James Madison Fellowship Award. Only one teacher per state is nominated to become a Madison “Fellow” and win the up to $24,000 in scholarships to help the recipient earn his or her masters degree in American History, Political Science or Government. This year for the state of Kansas, McPherson High School’s Government teacher Bryan Little was the nominee for the Madison Fellow Award.
McPherson Police Department and sheriff’s office taking back unwanted prescription drugs
On Saturday, April 30, 2022, from 10 am to 2 pm, the McPherson Police Department, McPherson County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will provide the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your pills for disposal to Law Enforcement Center at 1177 W. Woodside Street in McPherson. (Sites cannot accept liquids, needles, or sharps, only pills or patches.) The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
LGBTQ COMMUNITY, PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF BANNED BOOK MOVEMENT
Students in one Pennsylvania school district were not allowed to read a biography of the first Black president, Barack Obama. In some Tennessee classrooms, a nonfiction comic book about the atrocities of the Holocaust is banned.
Kansas Farm Bureau column
The wheat is greening, the fruit trees are blooming and spring planting is in full swing. One day the temperatures reached nearly 90 degrees, and then two days later we received a dusting of snow. Needless to say, it’s all part of spring in Kansas!
AVIAN INFLUENZA CONFIRMED IN COMMERCIAL FLOCK IN MCPHERSON COUNTY
The Kansas Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA–APHIS), has identified highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial turkey flock in McPherson County. This is the first case of HPAI in a commercial flock in Kansas; to this point, there have been four backyard flocks in Kansas that have had confirmed cases of HPAI.