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Forty years ago, it only took 73 seconds for a historic achievement to become a historic tragedy. On Jan. 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded […]
CANTON, KS — It’s the end of an era for Canton. When the calendar turns to 2026, scones will go unbaked, and tea will go […]
CANTON, KS — McPherson-native Maddie Clark has an older brother, but now, at 27 years old, she also has a younger sister. A teller at […]
Despite rising costs and general economic uncertainty, the National Retail Federation is projecting that U.S. holiday spending will exceed $1 trillion this year, which is […]
Thanks to child-like bickering between our elected officials, the United States government shut down on Oct. 1. Though the impacts of this are wide-ranging, travel […]
It’s time. It’s time to do the time warp again. And this year, we all need to put a little extra pizzazz into our moves […]
Yellowstone National Park, created as the nation’s first national park in 1872, covers 2.2 million acres of the country’s most picturesque landscape where, according to […]
I grew up on the street — “Sesame Street.” I stopped by “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” and took a ride on the “Reading Rainbow.” I imagined […]
Growing up in the country meant a lot of things during the summer. There were plenty of books for me to read, and my brother […]
I wish the rise of the machines would happen and artificial intelligence (AI) would get to enslaving humanity. Either that, or we humans need to […]
For the second year in a row, Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., recently received scholarly accolades. On May 2, Vogts was notified that he had won […]
Sterling College journalism garnered state-wide recognition recently by securing victories in the 2025 Kansas Collegiate Media Contest. Tod Mastin, a junior from Oberlin, and recent […]
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