Rangers and Grangers: Finney County history project
Finney County receives 8400 for a Kansas Humanities Council effort detailing early settlers lives. Descendants will share family histories while a summer exhibit at the Finney County Historical Museum presents interviews artifacts and photos from cattle drives to railroads. The work highlights perseverance against drought and hardship on the southwest Kansas plains.
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Kansas Humanities Council
Finney County Historical Society
Southwest
Kansas Plains
Holcomb USD 363 names new superintendent Jean Rush
Community reaction lauds Jean Rush of McLouth USD 342 as Holcomb school district selects its new superintendent. Students comment on growing programs at Garden City High School including the new Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps with senior Kelsey Keosengphet praising the course.
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Holcomb
Gctelegram.com
Holcomb Usd 363
Jean Rush
McLouth Usd
Sgt. Tidmore
Garden City High School
Kelsey Keosengphet
Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps
GCHS
Letters to the Editor Guidelines for Garden City Telegram
The Telegram invites signed letters under 500 words with address and phone, to be confirmed before publication. Letters may be edited for libel and length. general in nature. form letters and testimonials not printed. Write Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City Kansas 67846 or visit www gctelegram com.
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Garden City
New Chapel Designs Emerge After 1881 VTS Fire
The Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria plans listening sessions as it considers a new chapel after last October’s blaze. Officials seek community input on a design that blends memories of the old building with modern ideas, aiming to honor history while embracing renewal. Citizens, graduates, and families connected to the chapel hope for a thoughtful transformation. The process underscores opportunity amid loss, with potential garden spaces and mixed-design concepts under discussion.
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Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
VTS
Dabney Carr
God
Episcopal Seminary
Vts.edu
Dad
Henry Mitchell
Liu Xiaobo and Obama Nobel timing in US China talks
Opinion by Mary Sanchez notes Liu Xiaobo, jailed dissident and Nobel laureate, could not share a White House dinner menu while Hu Jintao visits. It contrasts Liu's Charter 08 and nonviolence advocacy with Obama winning the prize in 2009 and calls for China reforms and human rights progress.
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White House
Hu Jintao
Maine
U.S.A
Liu
U.S
Michelle Obama
London
Alexander McQueen
Yo-Yo Ma
Michelle Kwan
Vera Wang
Barack Obama
U.s.-China
Sarah Palin
Dalai Lama
China
Tiananmen Square
Obama
North Korea
Honeywell
General Electric
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U.s.china
Sputnik moment critique echoes in Obama speech
The piece argues Obama's State of the Union leaned on a Sputnik analogy to promote technocratic solutions, tracing the line from Apollo optimism to liberalist overreach. It cites Walter McDougall and James Webb to claim space policy spurred grand plans, but failed to deliver lasting reforms or budgets discipline.
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China
Obama
Lyndon Johnson
John Philip Sousa
Golden Gate Bridge
Hoover Dam
Walter McDougall
Earth
NASA
James Webb
McDougall
James Webbs
LBJ
Webb
Vietnam
Andrew J. Coulson
Cato Institute
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