Month: October 2020

I grew up camping with a large extended family.  We started with tents. That is, the adults had tents. Us kids crowded into the backs of station wagons or slept under the stars on a…

The coronavirus pandemic set Stephanie Marchesi and her family on a new path, one that led them to an unexpected adventure in Humboldt. Marchesi and her partner, Kathryn Frick, developed the historic Myers Hotel Bar…

Allen County, one of the few counties in Southeast Kansas with a mask mandate, has the lowest rate of coronavirus cases in the region. Allen County has now had 123 reported cases of the novel…

Marv Smith awoke each morning this fall and braced for the worst. “I was never confident at all that we were going to make it to the end of the season,” Smith said. “Right up…

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s time for a change for most of the United States. The clock is running out once more for daylight saving time. Standard time begins at 2 a.m. local time Sunday. Until…

With both teams out of playoff contention, and little more to play for than pride, Thursday night’s tilt between Iola High and Baxter Springs turned into a battle of wills. And oh, what a battle…

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A nursing home where every resident has tested positive for the coronavirus in a rural Kansas county with the state’s highest infection rate has been warned that federal officials are moving…

COLONY — Crest High’s football team opened the Kansas Eight Man-Division II playoffs in fine fashion Thursday. The Lancers rode the legs and arm of senior quarterback Jacquez Coleman in a 56-26 win over visiting…

The COVID-19 pandemic caught Chelsea Lea and her dancers by surprise. The studio, Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy, shut down for a short period of time at the beginning of the pandemic. But now, classes are…

LONDON (AP) — The global travel and tourism industry is on course to lose 174 million jobs this year if current restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in place, a leading industry…