Month: May 2015

BLUESTEM — Humboldt High’s track season will continue for a number of athletes at the Class 3A State Track Meet on Friday and Saturday in Wichita.In the class 3A regional meet on Friday, Bryce Isaac…

BURLINGTON — Southern Coffey County High’s Walker Harred, defending Class 1A discus champion, will get a chance to defend his throwing crown — and then some.Harred capped his senior year by qualifying for state by…

Andrew Michael King, 3½ months, Houston, Texas, left this Earth on Thursday, May 14, 2015 to be held in the arms of angels.Andrew was born on Jan. 18, 2015, in Houston, the son of Brian…

Lawrence Dietrich, 88, Humboldt, passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at Arrowood Lane in Humboldt. Lawrence was born in the house where he lived most of his life, south of Humboldt to John and Emma…

PLEASANTON — The game was closer than it had to be, but Humboldt High’s softball team took care of business and made it back to the state tournament for the second year in a row.The…

LACYNGE — Iola High’s track team will have two events represented at the state track meet next week. Senior Emery Driskel clinched her spot with a first place finish in the 100-meter high hurdles at…

MORAN — It won’t be hard to find Brady Newman this summer now that school’s out.Just follow the trail of sawdust.Newman, 17, finished his junior year at Marmaton Valley High School on a high note.In…

Having a sense of your ancestry helps you better understand yourself, according to Carolyn Whitaker of Humboldt. That, in part, is what has led Whitaker, 66, on a search of not only her own family…

When Bryan Murphy was a child, his father noted two careers he’d rather see his son avoid.“He never wanted me to join the military,” Murphy recalled. “And he really didn’t want me to get a…

Charles McVey was scratching around in his garden when thoughts of his childhood came to mind.McVey, 84, was born a couple of miles east of LaHarpe just as the Great Depression was sinking its fangs…