Month: October 2019

When it comes to classroom subjects, physics can get a bad rap. For one reason or another, students often assume they need to channel their inner Einsteins to earn a passing grade. True, there’s usually…

That Kansas’s most senior leaders are feigning complete disinterest in whether President Donald Trump dangled military favors in exchange for Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden is telling. Mr. Trump has Republicans so intimidated…

MORAN — Election Day will carry more than a little intrigue in Moran this year. That’s because the mayor’s seat has no announced candidates. Mayor Phillip Merkel declined to seek another term, and nobody else…

Charlie Gottlob and his father, Lincoln Elementary School principal Andy Gottlob, watch a performance of the Reba E. Davis Memorial Drumming Ensemble during a fundraiser at the school Monday evening. The event raised nearly $6,000…

Windsor Place resident Bill Owens shares a high five with Iola Middle School football player Kyser Nemecek Monday afternoon. Windsor Place residents watched a scrimmage between the seventh- and eighth-graders. It was the first time…

President Trump’s defeat of Islamic State as a territorial power was a major foreign-policy success, yet he may now undo it with a retreat from Syria that will also signal to U.S. allies that the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cast his decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria as fulfilling a campaign promise to withdraw from “endless war” in the Middle East, even as Republican critics and others…

Fall and spring are my favorite seasons. Finally, some cooler temperatures have arrived and it is actually feeling more like fall. I encourage you to get outside and enjoy the fall season. It is the…

Buyers have one final opportunity to purchase fresh produce and other goods at the Allen County Farmers’ Market. Thursday’s market session is the last one of 2019, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Jefferson Avenue…

FORT SCOTT — A grant writing workshop is Nov. 8 in Fort Scott, and is geared to help communities seek alternative funding sources. The workshop, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the…