Month: October 2018
The public is invited to a meeting Tuesday evening at LaHarpe City Hall to discuss a proposed new elementary school for USD 257 students in preschool through fifth grade. Engineers and architects with Schaefer Johnson…
The annual Farm-City Days Medallion Hunt is over. A searcher found the medallion Sunday, a Farm-City Days Committee member confirmed. Details of the find were unavailable by press time.
TOPEKA (TNS) A chill in the air and hours of waiting didnt extinguish Suzanne Averys fire about Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The veterinarian from Westmoreland, Kan., was one of thousands who gathered in Topeka on…
STOCKHOLM (AP) Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics today one for studying the economics of climate change and the other for showing how to help foster the innovation needed to solve such…
Iola Boy Scout Troop 55 will host its fifth annual chicken-noodle fundraiser from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Iolas Calvary United Methodist Church, at the intersection of Jackson and Walnut streets. Chicken and…
The federal government recently tore up Debbie and Tony Morrisons front yard in the small southeast Kansas town of Caney. And the two are happy about it. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency came in, scraped…
President Donald Trump campaigned in Kansas this weekend. This should provoke Democrats into action. His campaign stop included: blaming Democrats for his shortcomings, mocking claims of sexual assault, condemning the press as fake news, inflaming…
Everything in this newspaper is important to someone. Its become something of a mantra for me, in recent years. Small community newspapers are eclectic, to say the least. We publish photos of ribbons being cut…
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) The site of a devastating accident that killed two pedestrians and 18 occupants of a limousine headed to a birthday party, including four sisters, is a known danger spot that has…
INDEPENDENCE For the second time this season, both the Iola Mustangs and Fillies cross country teams came away from a meet with team gold medals at Sycamore Golf Course in Independence. Five Iola boys finished…
