If you think travel can make you happy, you’re going to love 2022. That’s when an unprecedented number of travelers will also try to pursue that elusive goal: They’ll try to make themselves happy by taking a vacation.
The state’s largest gas provider and a number of consumer and business advocacy groups have reached a deal in the company’s bid to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars in cost increases from February’s Winter Storm Uri, though the deal ultimately needs regulatory approval.
With the arrival of cool fall weather, the need for certain lawn and garden maintenance tasks slows down and eventually comes to an end when the ground freezes. But the cool weather and shorter days of late fall don’t signal the end of the need for certain lawn maintenance. In fact, late fall is one of the best times of the year to improve a stand of lawn grass, when an investment of time, sweat, and some lawncare products will yield a healthier, greener and more dense stand of turf earlier next spring.
Rep. Aaron Coleman, D-Kansas City, Kan., was arrested and charged with driving under the influence Saturday morning in Douglas County, just weeks after the embattled lawmaker was arrested and charged with domestic battery.
Although there might be a slight shortage of Christmas trees coming into the state, Kansas tree farms report their supplies of homegrown trees remains the same. Because of the increase in gas prices and the shortage of truck drivers, trees headed for the Midwest from the southern Appalachian Mountains, the Northwest and the Great Lakes region will cost more this year.
While you were asleep Thursday night going into Friday morning, you might have missed a partial lunar eclipse. This eclipse gave the moon a reddish and orangeish glow, which was seen from regions like North America, eastern Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and some parts of South America.
The City of Wellington has announced that the Park and Lakes Departments will be closing its restroom facilities for the winter. The closing/winterizing of all restroom facilities will take place this week.
There’s no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic adds stress to the hectic holiday season. In addition to the extra cooking, cleaning, gift-buying and decorating, Americans may have to worry about scheduling coronavirus tests before travel or ordering extra masks for family members.
Nolan Ostrowski felt as if death was close at hand. • “I felt a lot of despair and a lot of darkness over me,” said Ostrowski, 52, who was hospitalized in late July with COVID-19 at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. “When I closed my eyes, it was like death was coming.” • He began to pray, thinking of his wife, Kathleen, and their three children. That’s when he saw the legs of a man wearing a brown robe near his bed. • “I thought he was my guardian angel,” said Ostrowski, a carpenter who lives in Eaton Rapids. “There was a certain comfort in that.”
The Board of County Commissioners will proceed with the sale of approximately 52 parcels of real estate at the annual tax foreclosure sale on Tuesday, November 30, at 10:00 a.m. Of the original 155 parcels included in the sale proceeding, 103 parcels have been redeemed by the landowners.