Personal musings, thoughts, updates, and general tidbits from the life of The Vogts.
Monday Mark McGwire, former St. Louis Cardinals slugger and the man who hit 70 home runs during the 1998 season to break Roger Maris’ 37-year-old […]
A friend of mine, Rebecca Windle, teaches fourth and fifth grade at the Western Plains Elementary School in Ransom, Kan., which is where I now […]
Many of you may or may not know this, but I’m a huge Elvis Presley fan. In my parents’ home, I have a wall of […]
The Ransom, Kan., City and Nevada Township Fire Department is selling one of its trucks. And it looks like a gem. It is being sold […]
At Monday night’s Western Plains Unified School District 106 Board of Education meeting, held in Ransom at Western Plains High School, the board again visited […]
The year of 2009 ended on a considerable down note. I work at Western Plains High School as a paraeducator and an assistant boys’ basketball […]
The 2010-2011 Western Plains High School football schedule has been released. To see it, check out the 2010-11 football schedule page or see the list […]
A one-vehicle accident occurred in Ness County early Sunday morning that resulted in one fatality. According to Kansas Highway Patrol reports, Joshua Dean Stieben, 18 […]
With Christmas upon us and the wonderful time with friends and family occupying most of my attention, I thought I would share a few of […]
Christmas is a special time, and this is one of my favorite editorials about the holiday ever written. In September 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote […]
On Tuesday, Western Plains High School girls’ basketball head coach Travis Schafer, assistant Debbie Hagans, boys’ basketball head coach Jerod Horchem and myself gave the […]
Xerox, the document printing powerhouse, is doing something pretty darn cool this year for Christmas. They have set up a Web site, www.letssaythanks.com, where people […]
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