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TOPEKA, KS—The Kansas Historical Society announced that the Kansas Museum of History will display the world’s earliest printed map as part of its new temporary exhibit, You Are Here: Putting Kansas on the Map. This map, which explores historic Kansas maps and other maps of the world, opens Friday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, April 29. The Kansas Museum of History is open 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday – Saturday and 1 – 5 p.m. Sunday ...

There’s still time to register for a free workshop on launching small businesses, offered by the Kansas Small Business Development Center at Garden City Community College. The Steps to Startup workshop will take place 6:30-8:30 p.m. Jan. 17 in Room 2023 on the upper level of the GCCC Student and Community Services Center. The workshop will outline the necessary steps in starting and operating a small business ...

Classes among many in new spring semester on Garden City Community College campus Southwest Kansans interested in becoming teachers, exploring their talents in writing or understanding astronomy can count on upcoming courses at Garden City Community College. The college is offering hundreds of classes in the spring semester, most starting Jan. 11 or shortly thereafter, including Creative Writing, Foundations to Education, Children’s Literature and Descriptive Astronomy ...

  A group of 13 Southwest Kansans earned recognition in a recent pinning ceremony for the 2011 December graduating class of the Garden City Community College Practical Nursing Program. The ceremony at the Garden City Church of the Nazarene included an address by GCCC Nursing Instructor Elizabeth Wampler, as well as remarks by Nursing Director Patsy Zeller and Dr. Lenora Cook, dean of technical education and former nursing director ...

    Dodge City Parks & Recreation in collaboration with the Garden City Family YMCA will be providing an After School Program starting January 9th and running through the end of the 2011-2012 school year.  This program will be available at 4 schools: Sunnyside Elementary, Central Elementary, Miller Elementary and Northwest Elementary, and is available for students in grades K-4 ...

There is a free workshop coming up soon, sponsored by the Kansas Small Business Development Center at Garden City Community College, to provide information on starting a small businesses. The Steps to Startup workshop will take place 6:30-8:30 p.m. Jan. 17 in Room 2023 on the upper level of the GCCC Student and Community Services Center. The workshop will outline the necessary and fundamental steps in starting and operating a small business ...

Here is a photo that USD 443 had taken from a plane on the day they had a fire drill and they tried to see if the student body could go all the way around the HS ...

The Seward County Coronado Museum was established in 1961 through the efforts of four Liberal Businessmen. The museum features items that helped to settle the territory during its Wild West heyday, including an extensive weapons display, and a large collection of other home furnishings. Also included on the grounds are the Dorothy's house and Land of Oz exhibits ...

Boot Hill Museum was founded in 1947 and is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of Dodge City and the Old West.Dodge City was founded in 1872 and quickly became the world's largest shipping point for Buffalo hides and Longhorn cattle. Dodge was the wildest of the early frontier towns, but law and order was soon established with the help of men such as Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Bill Tilghman ...

Dodge City Raceway Park includes a 3/8 mile dirt track, with a 1/6 mile asphalt track inside of the 3/8. The 3/8 track is 60 feet in width. Both tracks, as well as the the completed paved pit area, have Musco lighting. The pit area also contains water and power outlets for the competitors' use ...