Tag: 2019
In a time of climate anxiety, 2019 was the second-warmest year since scientists began taking temperatures in 1880, government scientists announced Wednesday. The near-record temperatures cemented the past decades title as the warmest in modern…
As is my wont, my January book column is a look back at my favorites among books I read in 2019. My tastes tend to run to history or for fiction thrillers, and…
NEW YORK (AP) Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Times youngest ever person of the year today. Thunberg, 16, has become the face of the youth climate movement, drawing large crowds with…
Can you name a product produced in Kansas? Wheat, corn, cattle, stickers, storage tanks and Russell Stovers candy were some of the answers at the Sunday meeting of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club at Heartland…
Bedlam and Farmageddon will close out the Big 12 regular season. The Bedlam rivalry between No. 7 Oklahoma and No. 21 Oklahoma State is back at the end of the regular season after earlier November…
Opportunities to buy produce and fresh-baked goods sold locally are dwindling this year. Thursdays Allen County Farmers Market session in downtown Iola is the penultimate session for 2019. The market is open from 5:30 to…
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. economy grew at a modest 2% annual rate in the second quarter, a pace sharply lower than the 3%-plus growth rates seen over the past year. Many analysts believe growth…
The City Slickers 4-H Club organized a 4-H Record Book Workshop before their Sept. 15 meeting at the Allen County Courthouse Assembly Room. Older 4-H members helped younger youth understand the importance of setting goals…
The theme was ?Believe There is Good in the World? at Saturday’s Colony Day celebration. Andrew Attebery, left, and Landen Duvall, both of Colony, pick up candy tossed from the parade participants. Aubrey…
The 69th annual Lindsey-King reunion was held in Iolas Riverside Park June 15. Attending were Fred and Cindy Littlepage, Makenna Shipp and Macey Shipp, Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Kourtnie Littlepage, Springfield, Mo.; Randy and Cyndy Hughey,…
