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Let’s go to the Super Bowl – that is, the Super Bowl of disc golf. It’s the Professional Disc Golf Association World Championships in Ogden, Utah.

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34.

Using social media activates the brain’s reward center, McLean Hospital said. In response to using social media networks, your brain releases dopamine, a feel-good chemical linked to pleasurable activities such as sex, food and social interaction. According to Pew Research Center, 69% of adults and 81% of teens in the U.S. use social media.

With the audience sitting in the shaded areas of the park, accommodated by a breeze and the setting sun for a backdrop, the El Dorado Municipal Band began their annual Flag Day program with the anthem written especially for the band’s celebratory 100th season.

Gorgeous weather in Pratt, last week, provided the perfect backdrop for Sierra Marie Bonn, Miss El Dorado (who serves the Miss America Organization as Miss Butler County); Suzannah Bowden, Miss Golden Road, (who serves as Miss Ruby Slippers); and Jordan Burford Miss Sunflower Fest, (who serves as Miss Heartland) to participate in the Miss Kansas Scholarship Competition. They were each awarded $1,500 for reaching the Miss Kansas stage.

ANDOVER – Tornado recovery is well underway in Andover and Butler and Sedgwick Counties - and United Way of the Plains has raised more than three quarters of a million for the efforts. Many individuals and organizations are continuing to clean up, work through insurance claims, and begin case management.

TOPEKA — Paul Buskirk felt a calling 16 years ago to expand his contributions to public service by campaigning for election as Kansas’ governor. He put the idea to a test by chatting with a handful of close friends.

LANE COUNTY, Kansas — This time of year, the wheat growing in this part of western Kansas should be thighhigh and lush green. But as a months-long drought continues to parch the region, many fields tell a different story.

The name “Soroptimist” combines the Latin words soror “sister” and optima “best”, meaning “Best for Women”. Soroptimist El Dorado is embracing the definition! Congratulations to this year’s recipients of our Soroptimist Outstanding High School Citizen award! Kinley Nielsen is attending Kansas State University in the fall and Ashlyn Luna will attend Wichita State University.

The study, published earlier this year in Molecular Psychiatry and funded by the National Institutes of Health, was led by Dr. Alexander B.