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Pastors and their families play a significant role in the local churches and our community. Please help celebrate Clergy Appreciation Month by reaching out to our local ministerial families with a phone call, a text, an email, a Facebook message, a shout out, or just a pat on the back.

This past weekend was a long one, a full one, and a delightful one. Along with some friends, I took in the full run of the Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita.

Fall harvest is in full swing on our central Kansas farm. Do you live to work or work to live? This question of mindset and philosophy has been a source of intergenerational tension for a while now.

Dear Savvy Senior, Which vaccines are recommended for Medicare seniors this flu season?

“Newspapers are dead,” a solemn but dubious audience of students heard. “In 10 years, they’ll be gone altogether.” We’ve all heard the grim assessment.

I had a pair of young ladies at my house over the weekend, and they spent a lot of time shedding on the furniture, eating everything they could find on the floor, and nudging me with their noses for attention.

I love good food. I can't say that I only eat healthy food, but I try.

Insight I am not a great lover of sports, but I have always enjoyed America’s favorite pastime: baseball. My uncle regularly took us to watch the Brewers play at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee.

Paul Rhodes | Publisher & Editor Okay, this could be a fun exercise. Let's take a map of Wichita, draw a 30-mile circumference around it, and see if we can find a single 20-minute stretch of major highway that you can drive without running into construction work.

When the annual Walnut Valley Festival rolls around each year I'm always working to put together a good crew of reporters and photographers to help us with coverage. This is such a big and important event in our area.