Local fire truck up for sale
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 […]
Skiff Reader looks pretty sweet
Sprint, provider of cellular phone and other mobile services, is partnering with Skiff, a company that provides E-reading solutions that includes its own service platform, […]
Vogts offered football coaching contract
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 […]
Top 10 resolutions for 2010
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 […]
WPHS 2010-11 football schedule released
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 […]
WPHS senior dies in truck wreck
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 […]
Interactive painting symbolizes U.S.
This is a screen-shot of “One Nation Under God.” It is an interactive picture drawn by McNaughton Fine Art Company. By hovering over different portions […]
Vogts announces his favorite Christmas songs, stories
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 […]
‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.’
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 […]
Christmas presents given to basketball players
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 making Christmas special for U.S. troops
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 […]
Kansas broadband gaps to be filled via stimulus
Earlier this month, Kansas received a $2 million slice from the $7.2 billion pie that is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s program to expand […]