Opinions

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris have captured much of my attention over the past week. If you were to enter our house or office at any given time, you’d likely find the television on in the background with a competition being broadcast.

In the later part of the 19th Century, a conflict arose at the southern Kansas border that had not been seen in any other part of the west. The seed of the dispute germinated through a land grab movement by settlers who coveted the fertile Cherokee land south of Kansas.

It’s festival season.We recently enjoyed Fort Harker Days in Kanopolis. Then we celebrated the After Harvest Czech Festival in Wilson. Now, we’re gearing up for Cowtown Days here in Ellsworth.Fort Harker Days and the Czech Fest were both packed.

Mineral spring waters were once one of the most popular treatments for human ailment. A particular cluster of springs in south central Kansas was long known to the Indians for its healing waters.

Sometimes, your community gets to be a big part of history (see Jim Gray’s column for regular historical tidbits). Other times, it’s merely a small stop along the way to greatness.

Purchase of a new C-arm and an EKG were discussed Monday afternoon during the Ellsworth County Medical Center board of directors.“Our C-arm, when it was purchased, we got a bag of goods. Brand new system, but the size of the punch is superficial.

Frontier Kansas was a wild, exciting place. The frontier was certainly no place for a “pilgrim,” inexperienced in the ways of violent men on edge of civilization.Hays City was one of those kind of towns that ate men for breakfast.Who on earth would want to be a peace officer on the wild frontier?

In this week’s paper, you will notice that we celebrate National Ice Cream Month (see page A8).With the recent triple digit days, you don’t even have to explain this one to me. I’ve lived it.My son and I found ourself on a road trip.

Defugalty is one of my favorite words. You may not find it in the dictionary, but my mother used it for particularly disagreeable situations, mostly centered around an argument or a general confusion of one kind or another.

In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western Kansas. A chemical soup wafting to a sky ruled by a demon sun and chastened by moisturedevouring winds.