By the Johnson County Museum and JCPRD’s Fine & Performing Arts Department A brand-new art exhibition is coming to the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center. Entitled Resilience, Reflection, Rebuilding

Johnson County Park and Recreation District Assistant Superintendent of Recreation Shannon Sonnier, who oversees the agency’s sports facilities, recently took time to update plans for summer and fall sports, including

By David Markham Getting out on or in the water is a favorite part of summer, and with modified operations to keep patrons and staff safe from COVID-19, the Johnson

By The Johnson County Museum (Part 2 of 3) Johnson County is fortunate today to be home to many outstanding hospitals, clinics, doctor’s practices, and other medical facilities. But this

By Michelle Alexander Encouraging older adults to engage in healthy habits to maintain positive quality of life has always been the driving force behind what we do. Those healthy habits,

By Shannon Sonnier “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”-

By Jennifer Anderson Unprecedented times. Uncertainty. Social Distancing. We’re all in this together. We’ve heard these words over and over in recent weeks, and they’re absolutely right. Now let’s cautiously

Johnson County is fortunate today to be home to many outstanding hospitals, clinics, doctor’s offices, and other medical facilities. But this was not always the case. In thinking about how

By Alison Smith With students taking part in distance learning and adults working from home, we are all spending more time online these days. It’s hard to determine just how

By David Markham Even as life in the human world has turned weird this year, spring in the natural world marches on. With recent rains and warmer temperatures, nature is

If you have ever wondered what it might be like to live through a truly historic moment, here we are. This is not the first world pandemic, of course, but

By Alison Smith All the snacks you purchased for the next few weeks have been eaten, the shows on streaming services are no longer of interest, and you’re sincerely concerned

By The Johnson County Museum What makes a museum? This is something our staff has been thinking about a lot lately. An institution that is valuable to a community. A

By David Markham Of all the animals that live at the Ernie Miller Nature Center – a lineup that includes insects, fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians – which would

By David Markham Life suddenly got unimaginably strange and uncertain in a very short period of time! Just two weeks ago, who could have guessed the mass closing of schools,