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The final day of the Cass County Fair wraps up Sunday night with a tractor pull on the fairgrounds in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. (Cami Koons | Flatland)

Flatland’s Top 50 Stories From 2022: 35-31

December 27, 2022  |    |  1 min read

Flatland is taking a journey through our recent past during the holiday season, presenting 50 of our most popular, impactful or interesting stories of 2022 in chronological order between Dec. 24 and Jan. 2.

This is the fourth installment, featuring stories that first appeared between May 20 and June 23.

From May 20

https://flatland.tinythunder.dev/eats-drinks/pre-civil-war-era-missouri-bourbon-is-being-resurrected-in-weston/

From May 27

https://flatland.tinythunder.dev/news-issues/steamboat-arabia-museum-ponders-move-from-kc-to-st-louis-suburb/

From June 16

https://flatland.tinythunder.dev/news-issues/sound-smoke-and-fury-the-enduring-allure-of-the-american-tractor-pull/

From June 22

https://flatland.tinythunder.dev/news-issues/hitching-a-ride-through-history-the-evolution-of-kansas-city-public-transportation/

From June 23

https://flatland.tinythunder.dev/news-issues/in-kansas-city-lgbtq-support-systems-are-emerging-slowly/

Check back tomorrow for top stories from June 30 through Aug. 8.

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