Month: August 2019
Dear editor, I think you hit the nail on the head with your editorial about the new Rec Center being proposed by Allen Community College. After the 2007 flood, a new rec center with an…
Two things convinced Barry Adams, 75, he wanted to be a barber when he graduated from Humboldt High School in 1961. Like boys back then, he marched to Ward Barricklows shop every two weeks to…
As policymakers manage the daily reality of Kansass prison crisis, lets understand the core issue and its implications. Kansas has a growing prison population, but lags other states on criminal justice reforms that could curb…
HUMBOLDT ? Another extensive search in and near the Neosho River for Iolan Aaron Hutton, suspected in a Wednesday morning armed robbery in Iola, came up empty Thursday and Friday. Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy…
Iola City Council members will get their first look Monday at conclusions drawn from a top-to-bottom organizational analysis of the city. The study, developed by Wichita State Universitys Public Policy and Management Center, looked at…
Ben Smith wanted to take a different path to practicing medicine, one that would keep him in Southeast Kansas and allow him to do the most good for his neighbors. It led him to recently…
A two-week food drive sponsored by the Iola Rotary Club July 20-Aug. 2 brought in 1,000 non-perishable food items and $1,200 to be split among community pantries in Iola, Humboldt and Moran. Rotary donated $1…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A law enforcement officer said that former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked him to investigate possible double voting and non-citizen voting, and that missing ammunition that had been purchased…
Stocks tumbled on Wall Street after President Donald Trump said he hereby ordered U.S. companies to consider alternatives to doing business in China. He also said he would respond to Beijings latest tariff increase later…
Don and Delma (Smith) Goff will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends. The couple was married Sept. 5, 1959, in Carlyle. They have three children, Donna and David Yarnell, Erie, Darla Simmons,…
