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LAWRENCE — Great Bend's 2-time state cross country qualifier Decorah Schroeter continued her record-breaking cross country pace. Schroeter earned the third-place state medal (18:34.99) in the 5A girls state cross country championship at Rim Rock to improve her 14th-place state finish last year. The 5A substate and Western Athletic champion snapped several all-time course records...

BY JIM MISUNAS [email protected] SALINA — Ellinwood volleyball coach Greg Maxwell watches patiently like an artist who's enjoying a masterpiece. Maxwell's checklist — Pin-point assists. Athletic defensive digs. Creative passing. Lethal shot-making. Two-time state champion Ellinwood delivered an emphatic answer whether the Eagles would defend their 2A state volleyball champi...

Hannah Gotchall remembers seeing her grandfather sitting in a chair beside her hospital bed. He had been dead for years, having lost his own battle with lung cancer. But there he was, she recalls, as real to her in that moment as the pain and fear that had consumed her life. Beside him stood something she could only describe as a human-shaped light. And then came the words she h...

There was a time when Sundays were relaxing. I’d sleep in a little, maybe get a few things done around the house and settle in to watch some football. Those days are gone.

At 39, she faced a breast cancer diagnosis and a future filled with questions. Her doctor didn’t promise there wouldn’t be dark days. Instead, the advice was to give herself permission to visit that darkness — but never make it home, and to hold on to whatever hope and positivity could help her find her way back into the light.