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Following is next week’s menu for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels. Monday: Barbecue pork sandwich, oven browned potatoes, black eyed pea salad, peaches, milk.

Ingredients 3 cups flour 1/4 cup sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 1/8 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups raisins 1 tablespoon caraway seeds 4 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted 1 egg 1 cup buttermilk (I used skim milk with a touch of vinegar) salted butter, softened, for serving ...

From the Editor’s Files I completed my first signed piece of original artwork recently. I know...I know...I’m pretty proud of myself, too.

Savvy Senior Dear Savvy Senior, What are the new rules on required minimum distributions from IRAs and 401(k)s? I will turn 72 this year and want to be clear on what I’m required to do.

Student sets record for four-finger pushups A 21-year-old college student in China set a new world record for four-finger pushups on April 11, doing 22 pushups in one minute. Zhang Yuxuan even clapped his hands between each pushup, according to the UPI Odd Newsletter.

Melissa Haney, a science teacher at Explorer Elementary School in Goddard Unified School District 265, and Joanna Farmer, an agriculture teacher at Southeast High School, Wichita USD 259, were named Region 4 finalists for the 2024 Kansas Teacher of the Year award during an awards ceremony on March...

Egg-citing adventures.

March 20: Suspicious activity, 131 N. Main; Accident 911 call, 800 block N.

CLEARWATER – At its meeting on March 28, members of the Clearwater City Council gave an informal thumbs-up to plans to dissolve the Clearwater Cemetery District and turn the job of maintaining and running local cemeteries over to the city of Clearwater.

GODDARD – During Monday evening’s Goddard City Council meeting, council members discussed plans to pave Hawkins Lane, the road leading up to the public entrance of Tanganyika Wildlife Park.