Month: October 2018

Humboldt — Do you know how that playground equipment at the park down the street was purchased? Or the new sign leading visitors to a local landmark? How about initial money for a festival? In…

Fall is the perfect time to tidy up the yard, prepare your plants for winter and plan for the next growing season, Evelyn Lay told the Dirt Diggers Garden Club at their Oct. 10 meeting…

HUMBOLDT — The next meeting of the Sunflower Quilter’s Guild is Monday at the Humboldt United Methodist Fellowship Hall,  806 N. Ninth St. The board meeting starts at 9:30 a.m., the guild meeting at 10…

Ten Allen County 4-H members exhibited in the Kansas Junior Livestock Show in Hutchinson Oct. 5-7.  There were over 1,500 entries exhibited during this three-day show held at the Kansas State Fairgrounds. There were 103…

Iola has two new leaders in town. Daniel Kays comes across the country from California to be the new director of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. And Mary Benningfield is the new executive director of…

Dear editor, Without going into the actual 17 points mentioned in the LaHarpe meeting about building a new grade school, somewhere to be determined by the Board of Education sometime but not now, I would…

  70 Years Ago October 1948 Final agreement on a football game here Armistice Day between the Pittsburg State College reserve team and Iola Junior College was reached in a meeting of the Armistice Day…

A disturbing Associated Press report shines a light on what happens to immigrant children separated from their parents and forced into foster-care settings mandated by the U.S. government. In a small number of cases, foster-care…

The Humboldt volleyball team rewrote parts of their record book on Saturday at the Neodesha Invitational. The Lady Cubs placed second in the tournament with a 3-2 record but the most notable things happened in…

Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill got a wet greeting from a Patriots fan after scoring a touchdown in Sunday’s game against New England in Foxborough, Mass. The fan who sprayed a beer in Hill’s face…