Barbara Murphy: Nobody's perfect, right?

The other night, while watching the nightly news, I heard the newsman announce that the next featured story of the night was to be about lefties. That would be me!

Diana Boggia: Parenting is the most important job ever

It’s important to parent with a purpose. After all, it is the most significant job you will ever have in life.

Conservation poster awards announced, animals petted

The Kiowa County Conservation District handed out awards for its student poster contest on Tuesday morning at the Kiowa County Schools. Great Bend-Brit Spaugh Zoo Director Scott Gregory also brought along some of his animals to the delight of county students.

Kent Bush: One year after Dawit came home

Dawit is doing very well. His language improves all the time. He takes speech once a week to help him learn English sounds. The transition from Tigrinyan to Amharic to English is not easy.

Making Cents: Not assessing your financial risks is chancy

Being unprepared could cost you the chance to live your dream.

Wrestlers place, but have tough weekend

Greensburg Recreation Wrestlers Mason Dean and Gage McDonald traveled to Tulsa, Ok. last weekend to compete in the Tulsa Nationals Wrestling competition with more than 2,000 other wrestlers from forty states.

Lost in Suburbia: Caught between toilet paper and a hard place

It is a well-known, documented fact that I have toilet paper issues. I have written a number of times about my family’s inability to recognize when a roll of toilet paper is empty and needs to be changed. Sadly, I have accepted that this is my lot in life at home. But what is a toilet paper detective to do when she encounters a toilet paper misdemeanor in someone else’s house?

Dave Ramsey: Insurance necessities

Weekly financial Q&A, with advice on insurance and land investments.

PHOTOS: Greensburg Rec, Bootcamp

The Greensburg Recreation Bootcamp.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'Dear Disillusioned Non-resident'

The tree must stay? After reading your letter to the editor, I must admit, it sparked a fire in me.

EDUCATOR Q&A: Kim McMurry

Kim McMurry, Kiowa County High School

Loretta LaRoche: Better keep your sense of humor in shape

Columnist Loretta LaRoche says that despite all the exercising and healthy eating she’s done over the years, she finds herself realizing that her body is starting to look how her mother’s did. Her suggestion: maintain a healthy sense of humor.

THE RAIL: Week of January 30, 2012

Shoestring Living: One little chicken

Who hasn’t been on the way home from the umpteenth carpool drop off and a hard day’s work, only to realize that dinner hasn’t crossed their mind all day? In a pinch, both financially and when you’re short on time, there’s nothing better than a rotisserie chicken. Here are a few of my all-time favorite last minute recipes that all begin with one shredded little chicken.

Lost in Suburbia: Sleeping in C minor

My husband works in the music industry. Like most husbands, he has a tendency to take his work to bed with him. For us, this means he goes to sleep dreaming of music. I know this because there are times when I wake up to the sound of him humming in his sleep.  Truthfully, the humming is kind of cute. But the other thing he does in his sleep is conduct. And things can get dicey when he is working on a big orchestral piece and I happen to be sleeping in the string section.

PHOTOS: Twilight Theater construction

The Twilight Theater construction crew puts up the massive prefabricated conrete walls last week.

RetroActive raises $1200 for West family with benefit concert

Immediately following the total destruction of the Cody West family’s farmhouse, Haley Kern helped to organize a benefit concert to raise money for the West family.

FAITH & VALUES: ‘Oh how true this is with life, if we just weren't in a rush.’

Sometimes it feels like things take a really long time.  When you are anxious, nothing goes fast enough.  So, how do we enjoy the process when the process takes too long?  In other words, how do we enjoy our time when time seems to take too much of our time?

CLUB NOTES: Hospital Auxiliary has new Officers for 2012

The regular meeting of the KCMH Auxiliary took place Wednesday, January 11th with eight members and our guest speaker present.

Braniacs bronze at bowl

The Kiowa County Schools Varsity Scholar’s Bowl team took third place at the League Scholars Bowl competition at Ashland on Jan. 16.

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