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PRATT, Kansas – This summer marks the third year that neighboring Kansans have grown industrial hemp. Yet growing the less sexy cousin of the plant associated with getting high and some medicinal uses has proved riskier and more difficult than many farmers expected.

RICHMOND – Christian Fellowship Ministry is working with Samaritan’s Purse on Operation Christmas Child, a holiday donation operation, ministry member Libby Sturm stated. “Our church packs shoeboxes for them and we send the shoeboxes to Samaritan’s Purse and they send them around the world,” Sturm stated.

When I was just turning 40, with two young children and a full-time job, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I had never seen her sick a day in my life.

WASHINGTON – Missouri remains the U.S. population center. Since 1980, the center site has varied, moving east across Missouri: 1980, DeSoto; 1990, Steelville; 2000, Edgar Springs; and 2010, Plato, near Springfield. The new center is Hartville, based on the 2020 census count of everyone who lived in the United States on April 1, 2020. The center of population is the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of

RICHMOND – The agriculture education classes and FFA chapter have put on Supervised Agriculture Experience, or SAE, Day for several years. SAE Day is a day set aside from normal classroom instruction for students in an agriculture class who have a high-quality SAE project to teach other students about.

KANSAS CITY – In the book “Out Front Together,” Jim Dalton reveals the price paid – by his family in Ray County, the people of Kansas City, Independence and western Missouri – for race hatred before, during and after the Civil War to the present day.

WARRENSBURG – Care Connection has licensed navigators who can provide one-on-one, unbiased information and enrollment help for people interested in the Health Insurance Marketplace, agency information states.