Month: September 2019
Thirty-five years ago September 1984 Bill May, 35, Hamburg, Iowa, was hired as executive director of Allen County Hospital last night. May expects to begin his duties in about 60 days. Until then, Frank Luddington,…
Browsing through a small, upscale kitchen shop while on vacation, I looked at a fancy immersion blender you know one of those hand-held mixers that looks like a stick. The boxs label told me…
Even with a warm sun bearing down, area corn farmers are feeling a chill from a summer downturn in prices. The drop is largely due to a decrease in demand by oil and gas refineries…
Cathleen Bascom isn?t breaking with tradition. Rather, she?s simply helping establish new conventions she hopes will further ingrain the Episcopal Church with the larger community. Bascom, who was consecrated in March as the first-ever woman…
A visit Wednesday by the Rt. Rev. Cathleen Bascom to Iola Wednesday coincided with some big happenings on the horizon for Hope Unlimited. The organization is in the midst of preparing its new home at…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) Re-energized at 115 mph, Hurricane Dorian raked the Southeastern U.S. coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses as it…
Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner is ending his campaign for the U.S. Senate and will instead launch a primary challenge against Republican Congressman Steve Watkins. LaTurner said hes switching his efforts to run for the 2nd…
Over the last two years, Rob Van Vleet has been slowly scrapping the last vestiges of Kimball, Nebraska?s first wind farm. The wind turbines are made to be sturdy, he said, but they don?t last…
In a blatantly cynical ploy to undo 35 years of preservation, the Republican controlled Congress in 2017 buried a provision in the GOPs tax-cut bill to open portions of the 19 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife…
Kenneth M. Stanley, age 58, of Humboldt, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Kenny was born July 14, 1961, to Marvin and Reta (Gregg) Stanley in Chanute. He graduated from Allen Community College. On June…
