Month: November 2018

Every weekday afternoon, precisely at 4:30, Eddie Harner walks into Humboldt’s City Hall. For the next two hours, occasionally a little longer, Eddie empties waste-paper baskets, dusts desks and counters, scours floors and tidies up.…

Tis the season. Almost everyone has the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays on their minds. Plans are being made for family get-togethers. Ideas for gift giving and meals are being thought out. There is no doubt…

Dear editor, At Lincoln Elementary in the 1970s, I distinctly remember teaching art class to my students while all of us stood ankle-deep in water. It didn’t take much rain for the school to flood…

November 1988  TOPEKA (AP) — John Carder, mayor of Iola, was among 13 people appointed to a four-year-term on the newly formed state Commission on Health and Environment, Gov. Mike Hayden announced Monday. The commission…

Jenell Cox and Garrett Mulsow were married May 19, 2018, at the First United Methodist Church in Chanute.  The bride is the daughter of Debbie Cox (Reinhardt) of Chanute and the late Alan Cox.  She…

A family celebration is planned Nov. 10 to honor Carl and Mary Ellen Stanley’s 65th wedding anniversary. Carl Stanley and Mary Ellen Murrow were married Nov. 8, 1953, in Moran. The Stanleys have five children,…

Everyone chases Todd Gurley on the football field, but it seems the Rams’ running back has some catching up to do. Patrick Mahomes isn’t only putting up jaw-dropping numbers — 26 touchdown passes with six…

A handful of Chiefs who will travel to Cleveland this weekend have been where the Browns are today when it comes to playing for an interim coach in his first game. The Chiefs will work…

It’s human nature to ask questions and try to find the answers. There are many questions which are always asked, and people have tried to answer them throughout our history. And there are many questions to…

Blaine Crelllin, of Chanute, always wanted to become a teacher. But instead of earning a college degree, he started a family and began a career in welding that took him across the country. That career…