Month: March 2011

Humboldt is hosting a candidate forum at 7 o’clock tonight at the Humboldt Public Library. Candidates for city council and school board will be involved.

A delegation from Australia got the skinny on Gates Corporation’s hose-manufacturing plant Tuesday afternoon.Two representatives from Hardy Spicer, a Gates distributor Down Under, and a Gates-Australia executive came with six others, preferred customers of Hardy…

Hospital trustees are learning the Texas Two Step. Two steps quick, two steps slow. It helps to say “quick, quick, slow, slow” to keep your partner from mashing your toes.Anyway, that’s the perspective of negotiations…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Speedway announced Wednesday afternoon that it will hold its races Friday night instead of the scheduled Saturday night program.A forecast of rain for Saturday prompted the rescheduling.Gates open at 6 p.m. and…

INDEPENDENCE — Sophomore Garrett Catron dropped his first two matches in playing in No. 2 singles for Iola High’s Mustangs Tuesday. He bounced back to win his next two matches.Iola High’s boys opened the 2011…

Nabbing their first wins in Jayhawk Eastern Division play at home Wednesday probably allowed Allen County Community College’s Red Devils to exhale a little. The ACCC softball team came off a good showing at the…

Dear Editor,David Broder was a great journalist because he thought not to tell the whole story would be the same as a lie.The late Paul Harvey made a whole career out of “That’s the rest…

Plants not only breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, they also do a remarkably good job of absorbing harmful chemicals from the air. A peace lily, for example, removes acetone, ammonia, benzene, ethyl…