April is a month of fresh starts. As spring arrives and we begin cleaning out closets and garages, it’s also the perfect time to do a little financial “spring cleaning.” April is recognized as National…

The stand-up freezer in Kasey Guentert’s tidy garage in central Texas is chock-full of vacuum-wrapped cuts of beef. The meat is well-organized, with roasts on the top row and ground beef below. The third row…

Pastor Chase Riebel took his message “Not Ashamed of the Privilege” from Romans 1. In Romans 1:16, Paul says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of…

Deb Danielson, a quality improvement coach with Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas, read aloud from the children’s book “Worm Weather” Friday morning to youngsters in Robin Manbeck’s My Second Home Daycare Center in LaHarpe.…

It is with profound sadness yet deep gratitude for a life well-lived that we announce the passing of Lawrence Sherwood, who left this world on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at the age of 87, after…

It’s a miracle no one was killed Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, where more than 2,000 journalists, government officials and high-profile guests had gathered for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. These kinds…

Kansas was born arguing. Before it became a state, before there was a Capitol dome in Topeka, the Kansas Territory was consumed by a defining question: whether it would enter the Union free or slave.…

With the glitz and glamour of a Hollywood premiere mixed with the home-town folksiness of a county fair, droves of Iolans turned out for a party Friday. The occasion? Members of the Iola Theatre Association…

(View our photo gallery here.) Iola High School’s Junior-Senior Prom featured throngs of students in their formal wear, as they partook in a night of music, dancing and plenty of fun. Following the dance, the…

You smelled Friday’s World Food Fair at Allen Community College before you saw it. Probably heard it, too. The student center on campus was packed with flavors from 14 countries, as 23 college students donned…