Month: September 2019

Deborah Gail Lampe, age 66, of Colony, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at her home. Deb was born at Saint John, Kan., on April 7, 1953 to Clifford and Elsie (Wahn) Potter Johnson. She married…

Jerry Ray Sinclair, age 82, of rural Humboldt, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in The Venue at Feuerborn…

Ronald L. “Ronnie” Wools. Jr., age 56, of Leavenworth, formerly of Iola and Gas City, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, at his home. He was born Aug. 30, 1963, in Iola, to Ronald L. Wools…

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — The first mission for the U.S. is complete: The Americans are going to the Tokyo Olympics. And now the World Cup quarterfinals await. Kemba Walker and Myles Turner each scored 16…

Mark Lyle McCullough, 44, Iola, died on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center. Mark was born on October 22, 1974, in Wichita. Mark grew up in Burlington. He graduated from…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested John H. Maier, 34, Iola, for suspicion of driving under the influence Aug. 31. Allen County sheriff’s deputies arrested Anthony A. Ikehorn, 20, Humboldt, and Ty L. Griffiths, 19,…

For three decades I’ve worked with people who are aging or chronically ill, helping them figure out how the heck they are going to pay for old age or serious illness. One of the issues…

Above normal rainfall this year meant one thing — the lawn mowers have never stopped running! Our fescue lawns did not go dormant this year and the crabgrass hasn’t slowed down either. You might be…

Hundreds of people boarded a ferry in Freeport, Bahamas, Sunday night, thinking their immediate Dorian nightmare was about to end. Just before the ferry took off for Fort Lauderdale, bad news crackled over the intercom.…

The reading project is great for young person who enjoys a good book and sharing what you learned with others either in a study group or with an educational display at the county fair. There…