Month: May 2012

MOUND CITY — Yates Center High has two Kansas Class 2A Regional track event champions. Yates Center will send six competitors to this weekend’s Kansas High School All-Class Track and Field Championships. Marmaton Valley High…

RICHMOND — Four events entered and four events qualified for the state track meet. Humboldt High junior Tanner McNutt won a 2012 Kansas Class 3A regional track championship in the 400-meter dash Friday at Central…

GIRARD — Surviving and advancing from one of the toughest regional track meets in Kansas Class 4A is a feat in itself. Iola High head track coach Marv Smith pointed out that a lot of…

Kristian Clylene Rhodes, Moran, and Rylan Lee Resco, Moran, have announced their engagement and pending marriage. The bride-elect is the daughter of Bob and Vicki Rhodes. She is a 2008 graduate of Marmaton Valley High…

Randi Covey, Elsmore, and Ross Daniels, Humboldt, were married March 17, 2012, at First Baptist Church in Humboldt. Pastor Jerry Neeley officiated. The bride is the daughter of Clint and Tammy Wiles, Elsmore. She is…

Wednesday Senate President Steve Morris said he and his fellow moderate Republicans “were not planning on passing a map that’s detrimental to us.” The conservatives in the Senate and House appear equally determined to demand…

Last week Gov. Sam Brownback signed into a law a measure creating a new Creative Arts Industry Commission. This week lawmakers struggling to complete the fiscal 2013 budget agreed to fund the new commission with…

A while back the Kansas Legislature turned aside from doing the hard work of tackling state problems and passed a bill to prevent judicial or administrative decisions in Kansas from being based on foreign legal…

Walmart employee Tim Gernoble, left mashes a whip cream pie into the face of Tricia Sexton, Iola Walmart assistant manager, while Jeff Livingston, store manager, recovers from an earlier pie attack next to her. Friday’s…

HUMBOLDT — A covey of Humboldt Middle School eighth-graders learned this spring that they can make a difference. A few months ago with assistance from their math teacher, Mary Durand, the students applied for a…