Month: May 2019
Area students wont be able to take part in an educational summer program this year because of a lack of grant funding. SAFE BASE, an afterschool program in its 19th year, will not offer summer…
When it comes to marijuana, Kansas is a red state in an increasingly green country. Three of its neighbors Colorado, Oklahoma and Missouri have legalized some form of the drug in recent years.…
Low pay is the top reason teachers leave the classroom, a new survey of Missouri public school educators found. The states Department of Elementary and Secondary Education asked 6,000 teachers, principals and administrators what makes…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouris Republican-led Senate has passed a wide-ranging bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, acting only hours after Alabamas governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law. The…
Camryn Strickler of Crest High School is recognized by Gov. Laura Kelly as a Kansas Governors Scholar at a May 5 awards ceremony in Topeka honoring the top academic 1 percent of Kansas high school…
Betty E. Yoho, age 68 of Humboldt, passed away on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at Diversicare in Chanute. Betty was born on July 16, 1950, to Carl and Pauline (Madison) Grogan in Iola. She married…
Steven McCully, age 67, of Wichita, formerly of Iola, retired, avid gardener, baker, loving husband, father and PaPa, passed away Sunday, May 12, 2019. Memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at GracePoint Church,…
Iola Middle School honored the best of the best to cap the 2018-19 school year with Awards Day. Macie Hoag and Jesse Taylor were named recipients of the American Legion Award, which recognizes one eighth-grade…
Louisa May Alcotts life as a Civil War nurse marked an important period in her life. Alcotts story, penned by Samantha Seiple in the biography Louisa on the Front Lines, was shared by Maxine Perkins…
WILLIAMSBURG, Kan. (AP) Authorities say four people died in two separate crashes in the same northeast Kansas county. A Texas woman and her two children died around 9 a.m. Tuesday about 4 miles north…
