News
WELLINGTON – Due to staffing shortage, the Sumner County Driver License Office will be closed three days next week, Oct. 28-30.For questions or more…
CHENEY – This Thursday is the sign-up deadline for the Cheney Recreation Commission’s annual Ghosts and Goblins Flashlight Adventure. The event will be held at…
Following are next week’s menus for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels. The recommended cost is $5 per meal, if you are able to pay.Sedgwick County menu…
Spice Up Your LifeEditor’s note: This column first ran in print on Oct. 10, 2013.This summer, when Joey and I visited Wisconsin, we found out that we’d be…
ABOVE: The Cheney High School homecoming court is pictured just following coronation at last Friday’s homecoming football game, where the Cardinals defeated…
ABOVE: Paisley Coverdale enjoys a pony ride on Saturday at the Clearwater Fall Festival. LEFT: Zayley Cotham serves as a volunteeer during the magic show…
GODDARD – Future improvements to 183rd Street West at Maple took another step forward with action by the Goddard City Council at its meeting Monday.The council…
CLEARWATER – A man from Clearwater has been arrested in charged after allegedly threatening President Donald Trump in a social media post.Jaden J. Read posted…
Obituaries
Carol Sue Knoblauch, age 81, passed away peacefully on Sept. 6t 2026. Interment of cremains and graveside service will be on Oct. 26 after the 9 a.m. Mass at…
Barbara Ann (Porter) Emberson, age 82, of Clearwater, passed away on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026.Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at Clearwater…
Norma Naomi Wehmeier-Twietmeyer-Fearey died on Oct. 14, 2026, in Wichita.She was born on January 26, 1937 in Alta Vista, Kan. Her parents were Pastor Walter W.…
Garold Joseph “Gary” Smarsh, 86, passed away peacefully at the hospital on Sept. 23, 2026. He was born in Wichita to Nicholas “Chic” and Teresa Smarsh.Gary…
Fredric Ralph Cottrell, 86, formerly of Conway Springs, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, at Oxford Grand Assisted Living in Wichita.Fred was born on May…
For more than six decades, Adella Harmon was a teacher, librarian, wife, mother, grandmother, and tireless supporter of her family. Whether helping establish…
Brooke Emma Hemberger, age 3, of Conway Springs, passed away Saturday, Oct 3, 2026, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.Brooke was born March 8, 2023, in Wichita…
Beverly Jane (Shinn) Mies, 89, of Wichita, formerly of Conway Springs, died Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, at Ascension Living Via Christi Village Ridge, Wichita…
Opinions
Sometimes lessons in patience come from unlikely situations. I had one of those situations recently in a fast food drive-thru lane.And funny enough, all the…
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall may do something that a Republican Senate candidate has not done in nearly 100 years – lose to a Democrat.The last time a Democrat…
80 Years Ago10 Years Ago Miss Helen Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Johnson, has been selected as a member of the Bethany College A Capella Choir.70…
From October 1941The members of the high school faculty entertained the members of the Board of Education and their wives at a steak dinner on Monday evening…
10 Years AgoRuth Clark died last week at the age of 89. Clark was a beloved teacher who was honored in 2000 as the namesake of Haysville’s Ruth Clark…
From October 1915 “Jim Lane is dead” was the shocking information that passed around here very quickly on Tuesday morning. Mr. Lane, 47, came in on his regular…
From October 1905 Ten rural mail routes will be discontinued in Sumner County, Nov. 1, and the remaining routes will be lengthened. No routes out of…
9 Years AgoThe winner of the City of Haysville’s flag design contest will be publicly unveiled at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, at the Riggs Park bandshell. The winning…