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Beginning Monday, May 8, the Kansas Department of Transportation will begin a resurfacing project for multiple locations, beginning with K-209 in Dickinson and Morris counties.

Opportunities abound within the nursing profession. Nursing shortages have stretched the profession thin in both the United States and Canada. For example, a report in fall of 2022 indicated a nursing shortage was directly responsible for the closure of 16 emergency departments in Ontario, Canada’s largest province. Warnings regarding a potential nursing shortfall have been sounded for years in the United States as well, with estimates from the country’s Bureau of Labor and Statistics projecting more than 200,000 job openings per year over a decade-long period beginning in 2021 and ending in 2031.

Nancy Furney said that a little humming bird showed up while she was watering her flowers south of Alta Vista. She joked that he kept buzzing around her and finally decided to eat because Nancy was taking too long to leave. The photo is a beautiful reminder of the spring and summer days ahead.