CHAPMAN Though the COVID-19 pandemic halted much of the entertainment industry around the world, one company in central Kansas is bringing the family entertainment of Branson, Mo., to homes across the Midwest and around the world.
BDS Productions will premiere the show We Are Branson and We Miss You on Jan. 30. Doug Thompson owns the company with his siblings Roger Thompson and Lynda Lowry, and it is named after their mother, Barbara Doris Stensaas. Doug Thompson said the company produced a similar broadcast last year filmed at Branson Country Music Hall. We took the talent, turned it into a program and released it, Thompson said. That went out to a potential audience of over 50 million.
BOISE — During its first two weeks enforcing COVID-19 mandates, the city of Boise has issued four citations and made one arrest, while no businesses have had their licenses suspended