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Adults, take note

8 months ago By News Staff

Too often, we hear comments made in public about kids and what is wrong with them these days. We who have the privilege to work alongside them on a daily basis generally respond with an emphatic, “nothing!” Kids today do deal with many more temptations and have access to so many things both good and bad.

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You never stop learning

8 months ago By From The Editor’s Files

Paul Rhodes | Publisher & Editor Many of you know that this is the time of year when I'm a regular at the Walnut Valley Festival over in Winfield. After years at the festival – almost five decades to be exact – you would think that my opportunities to learn something new had blown away on the Kansas wind.

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Pulling out all the stops to 'go home'

8 months ago By From The Editor’s Files

Paul Rhodes | Publisher & Editor It has begun. Kim and I have started the annual pilgrimage that we simply call “Bluegrass.” This past weekend, after a long, hard week at work, we both mustered up the energy Saturday morning to pack up our camper and head to Winfield, Kan., the site of the legendary Walnut Valley Festival.

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How seniors can save on prescription drug costs

8 months ago By Jim Miller

Savvy Senior Dear Savvy Senior, I take several medications for multiple health conditions and the prices keep going up, even with my Medicare prescription drug insurance. Can you recommend any tips that can help cut my costs? Tapped Out Tina Dear Tina, The high cost of prescription drugs is an ongoing problem that stings everyone, but it usually affects seniors more because they have a greater need for medications and because Medicare doesn’t cover all their drug costs.

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Filling a freezer

8 months ago By Greg Doering

Insight For the first time in a long time, I won’t have to spend a Saturday defrosting an upright freezer in anticipation of the local meat processer calling to say our half steer is ready for pick up. Ideally this would have happened last fall, but I was really trading one hand-me-down freezer for another.

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A last mow by a trusted 'neighbor kid'

8 months ago By From The Editor’s Files

Paul Rhodes | Publisher & Editor When you live in a well-established neighborhood, you form all kinds of bonds. You learn that the couple who lives behind you will give you a hand with your garden when needed.

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Lawn stressed? September is time for relief

8 months ago By News Staff

Cool-season grasses, like the Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue lawns common to many parts of Kansas, have had about enough of summer. The state’s high temperatures and sporadic rainfall often cause cool-season varieties to become thin by summer’s end.

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Retirement planning tips for single women

9 months ago By Jim Miller

Savvy Senior Dear Savvy Senior, What retirement planning tips can you recommend to single women? I’m a divorced 58-year-old women with a teenaged son and have very little saved for retirement. Financially Vulnerable Dear Vulnerable, It’s an unfortunate reality, but many single women – whether they’re divorced, widowed or never married – face much greater financial challenges in retirement than men.

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Bringing up the kids right

9 months ago By Travis Mounts

Random Thoughts It's hard to rear children. They're smelly, unpredictable little things that more often than not are mirrors of our worst qualities.

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In raid of newspaper, law enforcement attacks democracy

9 months ago By News Staff

Guest Column Tim Stauffer Iola Register Editor's note: Times-Sentinel Newspapers stands in solidarity with the Marion County Record, which was subject to a raid last week that appears to violate both federal law and First Amendment protections given to journalists to help them serve their Constitutional role as watchdogs of the government. We feel our colleague Tim Stauffer, managing editor of the Iola Register and president of the Kansas Press Association, spoke on the situation as eloquently as anyone in the state.