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K-144 resurfacing set in Haskell, Gray counties The Hutchinson News Crews are expected to begin a resurfacing project on K-144 in Haskell and Gray counties on May 3, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation. The project is expected to begin at the U.S. 83 junction in Haskell County and continue east approximately 17 miles to the U.S. 56 junction in Gray County. Traffic will be reduced to one lane guided by a pilot car during the project. Dustrol Inc. of Towanda is the contractor on this $1.3 million project, which is expected to be completed in June, weather permitting.

Ecological catastrophe April 21, 2021 Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, and extensive degradation of soils around the world. Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans. Cultivation, deforestation, mining, livestock raising, and other activities degrade and destroy wildlife habitat, leaving animals no choice but to move closer to humans, potentially bringing pat...

KDOT Crews are expected to begin a resurfacing project on K-144 in Haskell and Gray counties on Monday, May 3, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation.  The project is expected to begin at the U.S. 83/K-144 junction in Haskell County and continue east approximately 17 miles to the U.S. 56/K-144 junction in Gray County. Traffic will be reduced to one lane guided by a pilot car during the project. Dustrol Inc. of Towanda is the contractor on this $1.3 million project, which is expected to be completed in June, weather permitting.   For more information on this project, contact La...

Trofim Lysenko, left, speaking at the Kremlin in 1935, with Joseph Stalin standing, right. (Wikimedia Commons) Trofim Lysenko was an agronomist who in the 1930s caught Stalin’s ear with a bogus theory: that grain seed could be conditioned to grow quicker and more abundantly in all sorts of climates, like growing bananas in New York and apples in the Arctic. Stalin loved it and made Lysenko’s theory law. He became the Soviet Union’s leading geneticist. He was flacked in honors, including three Stralin prizes and six Orders of Lenin prizes. The moment scientists began questioning his meth...

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