Audio-Reader featured in Topeka's HawverNews


Mon, 09/14/2026

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Martha Helen Kehr

For over 30 years, Vickie Griffith Hawver and Martin Hawver have kept the Topeka metro informed with a focus on "providing insights & information for Topeka-area Baby Boomers and other Grown-Ups!” using their combined decades of journalism and statehouse reporting experience. 

In their most recent edition of Still Blooming newsletter, they featured Audio-Reader with a wonderful two-page article. The newsletter also includes articles on the Northeast Kansas Book Crawl, Widowhood: When Two Becomes Just You, fun recipes and more!

Subscribing to Still Blooming is amazingly FREE and includes immediate access to the Still Blooming Newsletter as well as Hawver's Still Blooming Dispatches

About HawverNews, Vickie worked at the Topeka Capital-Journal for 17 years, starting as an intern while in college. She covered general assignment and the police beat and filled in as city editor on Saturdays. Then she covered the health beat during her last 10 years at the C-J, where she reported for the daily paper and wrote, edited and designed a three-page Saturday health section.

Martin Hawver retired as the dean of the Kansas Statehouse press corps in the fall of 2023, after having covered 47 legislative sessions, 17 for the Topeka Capital-Journal and 30 for Hawver’s Capitol Report. At the time of his retirement, he had covered the Kansas Capitol longer than any other current reporter.

Learn more and read the full September/October 2026 Still Blooming on https://hawvernews.com/ 

Mon, 09/14/2026

author

Martha Helen Kehr

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