-- Laura Hawks, ASLA, has joined Durrant as a landscape architect. She has more than 20 years of landscape design and architecture experience. She is currently the vice president of the Landscape Architectural Examining Board.

The Medical Associates of Maquoketa clinic will move this week to its new location. The office will close at noon Thursday, March 27, so the staff can move over the next two days. Medical Associates of Maquoketa will reopen in its new facility at 918 W. Platt St. on Monday, March 31.

By Sandra T. Molina WHITTIER - The merger of two local physicians' groups has created a new one - Bright Health Physicians - giving the community a larger resource to health services, officials said.

Aug. 19--One of Wichita's largest medical practices will move and reopen Aug. 29 at its former home at 7111 E. 21st St. North. Primary Care Associates has been at 620 N. Carriage Parkway for the past three years as its doctors pondered erecting a huge new medical building on the east side.