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While witnessing the 100th Annual Mexican Fiesta in Garden City, I thought I was being given a fist bump from a man in the parade when I was suddenly thrust a foam cow.
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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9/16/26
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Grandparents Day is Sept. 13, which has made me think about my own grandparents.
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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9/9/26
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They say the Lord works in mysterious ways. I know this because I once encountered His presence outside an H&M in Žilina, Slovakia.
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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9/3/26
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How many times can you reproduce something before it's no longer considered the original?
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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8/26/26
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While waiting for the bus home when I was working in Edinburgh, a man in line asked what I was doing on my phone.
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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8/19/26
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I sat at the Central Station bar with a Blue Moon on tap and an orange on the rim, watching highlights from a rodeo in Utah.
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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8/12/26
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When I first told my friends and family that I was spontaneously moving to a rural Kansas town of 5,000 people, many joked about tornadoes.
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By Isabelle Holloway, Managing Editor and Reporter
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8/6/26
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There are few weeks on the calendar that have the ability to bring an entire community together quite like fair week.
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By Tyler Hook
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7/30/26
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin.
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By Tyler Hook
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7/30/26
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Internet - love it or hate it, it has its purpose.
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By Nancy Wallace-Kletecka, Managing Editor/Publisher
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7/30/26
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There is an old saying - that history repeats itself. I'm not entirely convinced that's true.
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By Tyler Hook
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7/30/26
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If you haven't heard the news yet, I will be leaving the Ulysses News . My last day will be July 31.
For almost six years I have made the trek from the Oklahoma Panhandle five days (sometimes …
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7/23/26
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It was a beautiful bright summer day in 1966, a six year old little girl, and her eight year old sister stared into the blue sky and began a discussion about Jesus. They had been taught, early on, …
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By Sheila Koop
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7/22/26
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When I came to The Ulysses News almost six years ago, I was looking for something to fill a void. I had lost my husband to cancer in 2020, and needless to say - I was lost.
I needed something to …
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7/14/26
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There are moments in life when change slips quietly into our routine, and then there are moments when it arrives like a summer storm across the High Plains, altering the landscape almost overnight. …
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By Tyler Hook
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7/14/26
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Time. That precious, untouchable commodity we never seem to have enough of.
Lately, it feels like it is moving at warp speed, as one day quickly fades into another, and before we know it - we …
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By Nancy Wallace-Kletecka, Managing Editor
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7/2/26
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One thing I have noticed over the years is that whenever a community event is held, a project is completed, or an organization accomplishes something worthwhile, there is often a small group of …
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By Tyler Hook
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7/2/26
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Father's Day has a way of making you look backward.
My dad has been gone nearly five years now. He passed away suddenly at the age of 49 at the farm in 2021. Looking back, that first year after …
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By Tyler Hook
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6/25/26
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Twelve years is a long time and that's how long it will be July 18 - 12 years since my daddy, Norval Wallace, passed away.
Twelve years.
And yet, I can still see him (in my mind) sitting at …
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By Nancy Wallace-Kletecka, Managing Editor
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6/25/26
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Last year, The Ulysses News started a Responder of the Week program with Responders being named then being eligible to be named as Responder of the Year.
It is a program very near, and dear to …
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By Nancy Wallace-Kletecka, Managing Editor/Publisher
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6/16/26
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One of the more fascinating things about human nature is how little it changes.
The technology changes. The clothes change. The methods by which we communicate evolve from handwritten letters to …
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By Tyler Hook
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6/16/26
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Google it.
Google has all the answers.
The problem is - Google isn't always right.
Case in point.
In last week's edition of The Ulysses News , there was a story about a retirement …
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By Nancy Wallace-Kletecka, Managing Editor
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6/9/26
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There are times when I look around and wonder if we have forgotten how to disagree.
Not how to argue. Not how to win. Not how to prove ourselves right. We seem to have perfected those skills. …
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By Tyler Hook
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6/9/26
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There was a time when people believed the internet would become humanity’s greatest conversation.
Not its loudest. Not its angriest. Its greatest.
The dream was almost beautiful in its …
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By Tyler Hook
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6/2/26
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Life is hard.
Sometimes it can feel downright unbearable. It is in those times our faith is tested, even getting close to being shattered in to tiny pieces.
The drought in Southwest Kansas, …
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5/27/26
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