Month: December 2013

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s Cubs sailed past Neodesha 56-24 here Friday night.It could have been worse.Neodesha managed just three points in the first period and then, in a rare occurrence for basketball at any level,…

Allen Community College President Johnson Masterson — whose early career at ACC included coaching the baseball team — is among the newest inductees into the Red Devil Diamond Club’s Hall of Fame.Masterson was a coach…

CHERRYVALE — Iola High’s wrestlers proved Thursday that quality can still trump quantity on the wrestling mat.Despite not fielding a wrestler under 138 pounds — and having to field an occasional forfeit as a result…

Barbara Ann Cox, 68, a resident of Moran, died early Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park. She was born April 29, 1945, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of…

Vivian M. Barnett, 82, Colony, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, in Colony.Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Monday at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Colony. Burial will follow in…

Stacey LeAnn Tate, 49, Moran, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, at her home.Stacey was born March 11, 1964, in Iola, the daughter of Howard L. “Larry” and Lolita (Walls) Johnson. She grew up in…

Charles B. Troxel, 91, Iola, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, at Allen County Regional Hospital.He was born Sept. 28, 1922, in Moran, the son of Harry Earl and Eunice Jeannette (Ransom) Troxel. He grew…

Deer hunting has changed — at least for me.For more years than I can remember, I’ve taken off the first two weeks of December to hunt.With the explosion of the whitetail population 40-odd years ago,…

If my mother were alive, she’d “tsk, tsk” at the small pile of Christmas cards accumulated in the family’s basket, decorated for such purpose. “If you don’t give, you won’t receive,” she’d say. Truth is,…

MORAN — The Moran Community Choir is doing what it does best this holiday season, bringing people together.They will be presenting their Cantata at the Moran United Methodist Church Sunday, starting at 6 p.m. It will…