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A bus carrying the Andover High School Trojans girls basketball team to their Dec. 16 game in Goddard against the Eisenhower Tigers was struck by a goose.

Argonia Thursday City Hall closed. Cheney Thursday City Hall, senior center closed.

TSnews CHENEY – A longtime fixture at Cheney's locally- owned grocery store is retiring. Kathy Pauly, who has helped run SPK and its predecessor stores for 35 years, is stepping away as 2025 comes to an end.

With Christmas Day here, people will soon start putting away the decorations and taking down their Christmas trees. For people who have real Christmas trees, there are opportunities to recycle your tree.

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Following are next week’s menus for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels. The recommended cost is $5 per meal, if you are able to pay.

I believe that it’s a universal truth that everyone who loves to make family recipes has a moment where they just can’t figure out why, despite following the instructions to the letter, the end product just doesn’t taste as good as when the person who gave up the recipe in the first place made it. In our family, that is famously my mom’s pumpkin bread.

Ingredients 3 apples, peeled and diced Directions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease an eight- or nine-inch round baking pan with butter.

TSnews MAIZE – Our Community Chamber, which is the new name for the combined Chamber of Commerce operations for Goddard and Maize, held its annual meeting last week. Highlights from the annual meeting included guest speaker Devin Vrana, and the announcement of Business of the Year Awards.