Month: March 2019

Katrina Springer admits that up until now she had pretty much “just blindly believed” information from Kansans for Life, the pro-life group with a goal to eradicate abortion. All that changed Wednesday night when Springer,…

A Humboldt business is asking a judge to reverse Allen County’s decision that blocked a request to start up a rock quarry. D&D Propane, Inc., owned by David Gant of Humboldt, and his business partners…

Monica Criger’s pleasant nature is a byproduct of her work-a-day life. It’s the kids. “They keep you young,” said Monica, a paraprofessional at Humboldt Elementary for better than 20 years. Criger said she had intended…

Carlyle Presbyterian Church Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday was “Waterproof,” taken from John 6:16-21. Myrna Wildschuetz played “It Could Happen in a Moment” for the prelude and Rita Sanders played “Through it All” for the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. The ban took effect…

When I think of all the reasons to support the school bond issue on Tuesday, the one that continues to rise to the top is the difference a new elementary school would mean to the…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for making bogus emergency calls to authorities across the U.S., including one that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas…

Dear editor, I’m in support of the school bond.   I came from a conservative, rural farm community in Illinois, but they  passed every school bond issue that ever came up.    I’ve always been…

I’ve had the great pleasure of working with young people in the community for the past 18 years.  When I was 19, I began working as a tutor for SAFE BASE and as youth minister.…

Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a thin tissue of dubious reforms hurt the GOP badly in the 2018 midterm election. So you might think that President Donald Trump…