Month: January 2019
Iola Rotary Club’s monthly paper drive, scheduled for this Saturday, has been pushed back a week due to threatening weather. It will now be held on January 19. Newspapers, magazines and corrogated cardboard are collected and taken to behind the…
Iolan David Toland has been appointed Acting Secretary of Commerce by Gov.-elect Laura Kelly. Toland, CEO of Thrive Allen County, will leave that position Friday. Toland served as Kellys campaign treasurer. In his 10 years…
A crowd of more than 50 ventured to LaHarpe City Hall Wednesday evening for WinterFest 2019, an evening of food, games, music and pickleball. An open house at City Hall, to show off the buildings…
LAHARPE A series of stop signs removed by city crews in November will go back up, LaHarpe City Council members decided Wednesday. The reversal came after Council members heard from a number of residents…
Tracy Keagle suffered sexual abuse from the ages of 4 to 13. She thought she hoped no one else in the world could ever experience something so horrible. She felt ashamed and alone.…
Raef Cameron-Lee Casner, age 17, Iola, passed away on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, at Childrens Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. Raef was born March 19, 2001, in Chanute, Kansas, to Keith Casner and Lea (Dillingham)…
WASHINGTON A day after calling for a bipartisan compromise to resolve the partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump stormed out of a White House negotiating session Wednesday when Democratic leaders refused to agree to…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged North Korea to take bolder disarmament measures that the United States should then reward, suggesting today he wants harsh sanctions lifted so Seoul can…
WASHINGTON (TNS) Big cities have shielded their residents from the impact of Chinas decision last year to curtail the solid waste it will accept from other countries. But rural and small-town residents are starting…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold money to help California cope with wildfires, a day after new Gov. Gavin Newsom asked him to double the federal investment in forest management.…
