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Insight It’s hard to see a yellow school bus and not think about all the hours of my childhood spent sitting on one of those hard seats with a stiff back. I hope the modern versions have a little more comfort than the utilitarian transportation I had to ride uphill both ways.

Included in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s sobering statistics on injuries and death in older adults due to falls are four very important words.

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.

TSnews Conway Springs High School graduate Brooke Beck’s college years will be a little easier, thanks to the generosity of the Sumner County Farm Bureau Association. Beck is the winner of this year’s $1,000 Helen Norris Memorial Scholarship, which she was awarded at the association’s annual meeting in August.

Moments from the awards

TSnews Joseph and Theresa Neville were named Farm Family of the Year at the Sedgwick County Farm Bureau meeting. Joseph has been on the county board since he graduated college.

The future of farming

TSnews Wildcat Stock Farm was named a Century Farm at the Sedgwick County Farm Bureau meeting. Thirty years ago, Jane Johnson filled out the form and didn’t get it.

TSnews It appears that rumors of summer’s demise in the area might have been a bit exaggerated. After a recent stretch of cooler- than-normal temperatures prompted speculation that fall had arrived early – highs last weekend were in the 70s and nighttime lows were in the 50s – temperatures began to warm into the 80s earlier this week, with lows creeping back into the 60s.

MOUNT VERNON – This is a season of growth and renewal at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Mount Vernon, located on the edge of Cheney Lake.