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It’s been a month full of swirling wind and lots of snow! At this rate, 2024 is off and running in real central Kansas style! Thanks to our road crews and district staff — and to our students’ families — for their flexibility over the last few weeks as we worked to balance safety with student learning. We couldn’t do any of it without these partnerships.
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Recent events have Americans reevaluating their lives. Freedom is a relative thing. It comes with a cost, and as it is with all things, “You get what you pay for.” The following is a reprint from the January 2000 Kansas Cowboy, a paper that was published from 1995-2015. Some things are timeless...
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In a piece written a few months ago, I wrote about the benefits of volunteerism. Hopefully this type of dialogue was motivational in nature. Maybe it helped a few people decide to dive in, volunteer and make an impact on our community.
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The use of seals to notarize or confirm the authenticity of documents or to brand products as in a modern trademark is rooted in antiquity. Examples of seals engraved with figures and symbols have been found from approximately 3,400 B.C. Mesopotamia. Seals are believed to have been in use before that, perhaps hundreds of years before the invention of writing.
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Monday we celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
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The Way West revisits Kansas history, telling little known stories that give us all a better understanding of this place called Kansas and the people who have gone before us. We all should have a better awareness of our origins. The actions of the founding fathers who forged the 34th state are every bit as dramatic as any in the history of the nation.
Read moreIf you break down, do it in Ellsworth
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