Zelma Whiteley, 92, Le Roy, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.Graveside services will be at noon Wednesday at Jamestown Cemetery in Jamestown. Whiteley will lie in state at Van Arsdale Funeral Home in Le Roy from…

Dale Bradford, 57, Iola, died unexpectedly Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012.Dale was born Jan. 29, 1955, in Iola, the son of Richard and Doris (Crawford) Bradford. He grew up on farms south of Iola and graduated…

Richard Phillip Woodward, 98, Iola, passed away Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Allen County Hospital.Phil was born Feb. 12, 1914. On April 1, 1942, he married Nola Shannon Smith and they made their home in…

Ira Buford Peck, 84, passed away on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.He was born on Sept. 4, 1928, to Ira and Velma (Slack) Peck in Iola. He spent his early childhood in Iola before the family…

Esther Elizabeth Maloney, 88, of Humboldt, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.Esther was born Nov. 3, 1924, at Winterset, Iowa, the daughter of Archie and Lottie (Johnson)…

Standing around the coffee pot Sunday at church conversation turned to the end of the world. This old globe will give it all up on Dec. 21, when a 5,125-year cycle known as the Long…

Giving up the paper dollar for that good-looking gold coin would save the American taxpayer some $4.4 billion over the next 30 years, the government estimates. Vending machine operators love the idea. Feeding paper money…

Einstein was right. Those who do the same thing over and over again and expect different results are insane. Congress and the administration deserve the label. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner handed…

EUREKA — Turnovers plagued Humboldt High’s girls Friday in a 49-18 loss to open their season against Eureka.“We didn’t execute,” head coach Sherri Nelson said. “It was a rough start, but I am optimistic that…

BURLINGTON — An offensive dry spell in the second and third quarters Saturday put Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade girls in a hole.The Ponies responded down the stretch, but could not come back to win. The…