Month: December 2019

The Prairie Rose 4H club enjoyed a late afternoon of caroling at Moran Manor prior to their monthly meeting. The club also donated a box of FFA fruit to the workers at the Manor.  Seventeen…

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is paying up after conceding that he used his charitable foundation at times as a personal piggy bank. Trump has wired $2 million to pay a court-ordered fine…

60 Years Ago December 1959 The Lehigh Portland Cement plant will be down for about five weeks while workmen reline the smokestack with firebrick and other repairs and replacements are done throughout the plant, manager…

It doesn’t take prognosticating skill to predict that Kansas Democrats and Republicans will argue about taxes in 2020. Of course they will. But the 2020 argument should be especially interesting to voters as officials decide…

This is the second in a series of articles about USD 257?s Career and Technical Education program.   Students in Blaine Crellin?s welding classes at the Regional Rural Technology Center at LaHarpe this year are…

SchooI budgets were tight in the Oklahoma farming community where I grew up, but teachers’ dedication was boundless. Take, for instance, my high school biology teacher who seemed to live for his students and active…

The skies above Gates Corporation?s Iola plant were abuzz with activity Saturday morning, as crews installed four new air control systems onto the facility?s roof. The $1 million project was made substantially easier through the…

Americans exhausted by congressional gridlock may get a gift this holiday season, after all: a bipartisan law cracking down at long last on the universal nuisance of incessant robocalls. Good, old-fashioned legislating has led lawmakers…

Sally Gulick, age 75, of Moran, passed away Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe. Sally was born Feb. 5, 1944, to Virgil and Doris (Little) Stever in Eureka. She married Greg Gulick…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prisons have exceeded their operating capacity and it will cost the state millions of dollars to send hundreds of prisoners to a privately owned and operated prison in Arizona. The…