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Savvy Senior Dear Savvy Senior, Is there anything I can do to reduce my high Medicare premium surcharges? Because of my past income, I pay $329.70 per month for my Part B premium and $64.50/ month for Part D, but my income has dropped since I retired. Do I have any options? Overcharged Andy Dear Andy, If you’re getting hit with a higher premium for Medicare Part B and Part D and you think it’s unjustified, you can ask Social Security to revisit its decision and perhaps reduce your cost.

March 13: Medical call, 700 block N. Main; Assist Cheney Fire, 3500 block 359th St.

MANHATTAN – Kansas Farm Bureau’s (KFB) Shop Kansas Farms (SKF) rolled out a new website on Tuesday in celebration of National Agriculture Day. The website, www.

Emporia State University has named nearly 750 undergraduates to the university honor roll. To qualify for the university honor roll, students earned a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 graded hours.

Every week, I go have lunch with my Little for Big Brothers Big Sisters. We solve the world’s problems over school food and Uno cards as only a 13-year-old and a 39-yearold can.

Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, melted 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup, plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided 1 cup flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 16 ounces fresh strawberries, halved or quartered, divided Directions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a nine-inch glass pie dish by spraying it with cooking spray.

Every Thursday, I get extremely pumped up for “Star Trek: Picard,” the latest series in the long-running television and movie franchise that goes back to the late 1960s. The original “Star Trek” series – known as the original series or TOS – set a new standard for science fiction on television.

It has not been unusual in the past for me to receive “fan mail,” if you will, from readers of our newspapers. Those letters used to almost always arrive by regular mail.

Work is expected to begin around April 5 on a $2.5 million project to resurface a 17-mile section of K-49 in Sumner County. The Kansas Department of Transportation project involves a mill and hot-mix-asphalt overlay on K-49 from Avenue A in Caldwell north to the U.S.

Following is next week’s menu for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels. Monday: Ham chowder, green beans, Mandarin oranges, cornbread, dry fruit with walnuts, milk.