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March Madness: Basketball & a Blizzard in Liberal, Kansas

By Nancy Kopp on March 14, 2025

After a week’s visit with my brother and his wife in New Mexico, we were heading back to Kansas. Our plan was to go as far as Liberal, spend the night and on to Manhattan, our home, the next day. We...

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Outdoor Encounters

By Nathan Bolls on March 6, 2025

How long has it been since you’ve experienced a moment of genuine healthful silence, a time during which you were profoundly, silently, reverently alone with yourself, or with Nature, or with another...

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Hiking with Family

By John Walters on March 6, 2025

I talked to Karen, my first wife, about taking a short backpacking trip, just the two of us. She was the one who encouraged my backpacking several years before. I had been interested in Chesler Park...

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Brain Changes & Mindset Shifts: Memory Matters Symposium set for March 24

By Katie Sigman on March 6, 2025

If you have the privilege of living long enough, you learn that one thing you can always count on is change. Changes that occur as we age may include retirement, wrinkles, growing families, and more...

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Time to Dress Up!

By Becky Fitzgerald on February 27, 2025

Are your home or office walls a bit … well, naked? Perhaps you’d like to replace a mass-produced piece with an original. SNW Gallery in the HEART of downtown Manhattan is ready to help turn voids...

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Meadowlark Lenten Lecture Series Invites Community Leaders to "Get Real"

By Rev. Melanie Nord on February 20, 2025

When I was young, I thought the season of Lent and Ash Wednesday was for Catholics. In fact, I knew little about either tradition until my second internship for my master’s program. My supervisor was...

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Middle Fork of the Salmon River

By John Walters on February 20, 2025

We camped at the mouth of Waterfall Creek, which comes down from the lakes we had hiked from. Jim fished for trout in the river, caught two 20-inchers, but it was only catch and release. Jim always...

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Ready to Mingle: Upcoming pARTy Offers Paintings, Experiences, & More!

By Becky Fitzgerald on February 13, 2025

Do you have your tickets for Art Mingle? No?! There's no better time than right now to secure your spot at this artful fundraising event, set for March 7 at SNW Gallery and Union Hall, 328 Poyntz Ave...

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Backpacking with a Companion

By John Walters on February 13, 2025

In January of 1972, Jim Dix and I began plans for a backpacking trip in the summer of that year. He had grown up in Caldwell, Idaho, and wanted to hike in Idaho. During lunch one day we examined a...

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Outdoor Encounters

By Nathan Bolls on February 6, 2025

I treasure the first time I was motivated to look past the surface of a wild scene, to ponder the meanings, the fates, of the natural structures or wild organisms I was watching. It was the first...

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