Month: December 2017
Linda K. Tinkler, 69, Janesville, Wis., passed away on Wednesday, Dec., 13, 2017. Linda was born Jan. 4, 1948, in Iola, to Kenneth and Mary Louise Stephens. She grew up on a dairy farm in…
HUMBOLDT — A fundraiser for the Lezlie and Michael Gean family will be at Opie’s restaurant Wednesday.A portion of sales from 4 to 8:30 p.m. will be contributed to the family.Also, Monday through Friday a…
HUMBOLDT — Friday morning Michael Gean sat back in a recliner, warmed by a colorful handmade quilt, and with grim determination plumbed the intricacies of Medicare by way of cell phone.At 44, Gean shouldn’t being…
It’s been four months since Iolan Dennis Lughbough Jr. has disappeared.The circumstance surrounding his disappearance are as perplexing as they are frustrating.Here’s what the family knows.Lushbough, 44, and his girlfriend, Ali “Dawn” Deweese, had been…
Allen County has $150,000 budgeted this year and again in 2018 to help new and existing businesses succeed. When 2018 dawns, this year’s allotment will remain unspent.Five members of an economic development committee given responsibility…
On a night where matchups were scarce, Humboldt’s numbers proved advantageous, earning them dual wrestling wins over Iola (48-18) and Erie (54-0), while the host Mustangs beat Erie, 30-6. In contested matches, Humboldt finished the…
Legendary Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll once said, “I would rather play well and lose than play poorly and win.” While Iola head coach Luke Bycroft might see where the NFL Hall of Famer…
The Iola girls really wanted this one. They want all of them, of course, but coming off a 40-point drubbing by Burlington, they wanted to get a win over a winless Prairie View to help…
Kansans should take comfort in Tuesday’s election in Alabama. Political neophyte Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore, a longtime judge known for his misogynist and racist leanings. Jones’s victory is akin to a Democrat, or perhaps…
