My hands are still trembling as I write this. Fingers like ice. Pray, dear friends, to never see what I have seen. For not only will the sane rhythm of your heart never return. ……

Schools in Allen County can expect a boost in STEM programs thanks to nearly a million dollars in grants from the USDA. The grants will benefit schools in four counties: Allen, Franklin, Neosho and Woodson.…

From the moment she arrived in Yates Center, Michelle De Le Isla — mayor of Topeka and now running for Congress — was asking questions, trying to get a sense of the place and the…

Tuesday night, Woodson County farmer Mark Pringle had the honor of representing the state of Kansas during the Democratic National Convention roll call. Pringle delivered remarks from his farm in southern Woodson County, with a…

Veteran Register reporter Bob Johnson and I were in Cofachique, the birthplace of Allen County, now nothing more than a field of soybeans. Looking across the field, I marveled at the raw emptiness of the…

The sun’s sickly pallid light was fading, receding from the forest floor as I proceeded north through the timber, following the line traced by a sandstone farm fence. I was on the hunt for a…

“Disclaimer: I tend to drive this places where it’s not supposed to go,” J.J. Edwards maniacally grinned as he shifted the Polaris ATV into four-wheel drive and gunned it up the steep muddy embankment. The…

Earlier this week, a farm family from rural Woodson County was featured on an MSNBC special hosted by Joy Reid titled “American Crisis: Poverty and the Pandemic.” Mark Pringle and Mary Jane Shanklin were on…

In northwestern Woodson County, just south of the German-Russian settlement known as Nikkeltown, lies a pasture. It looks like any other pasture, really, with dry, brittle grasses swaying slowly in the wind beneath a sprawling…

Long after I had crossed the Kimbell Ranch with its vast open sky, stretching and swelling with enormous oceanic depths, the experience stayed with me. After I had seen the expanse of the Rhea Brush,…