Kansas Country Living magazine

All members of FreeState Electric receive a complimentary copy of the Kansas Country Living magazine. FreeState employees and trustees often receive questions from members about why they receive the magazine. The answer is––the magazine is a benefit to both the cooperative and the entire membership.

The word “membership” helps supply part of the answer. As a member of FreeState, you are entitled to certain benefits – those not available to paying customers of investor-owned utilities.

As a member and owner of FreeState–not just a paying customer–you are entitled to know how your business operates. FreeState considers it an obligation to share information on a timely and regular basis. The best way to do this is through the Kansas Country Living magazine. FreeState’s electronic newsletter, the Signal, is located in the middle part of the magazine and can be distinguished by the colored border. This content is written and created by employees in your local office and is designed to keep you updated on the latest news of the local cooperative, such as annual meeting information, area meetings, youth tour information, outage and construction activities, people who work for you, safety tips, ways to use electricity wisely and announcements, and more.

Kansas Country Living magazine serves as FreeState Electric Cooperative’s official publication.

The main pages of the magazine contain news and interesting features from around Kansas.

FreeState is one of 23 electric cooperatives in Kansas, providing this magazine to its members, each cooperative with its own customized newsletter inserted into the magazine. By combining forces with these other electric cooperatives, the cost to produce the inserts and the magazines becomes quite reasonable. In fact, the cost per member is about 65 cents. This includes printing and mailing the magazine to more than 15,000 FreeState members. Each month, more than 128,000 magazines were mailed to cooperative members in Kansas. If we were to provide this information alone in a one-page letter, the postage alone would be 50 cents. Timely and useful information has far more value than what it costs for publishing the magazine.

You can view the past issues of the newsletter in the menu on the right!