Month: December 2019
WASHINGTON On a trip to Iran a decade ago, former Rep. Jim Slattery exchanged a Rock Chalk, Jayhawk cheer with an Iranian official who had attended the University of Kansas and remembered Slatterys time…
Paul Setter, Humboldt, this years state 4-H dairy champion, has been named a national 4-H dairy winner by the national committee on boys and girls work in Chicago and will receive a $400 college scholarship…
The Lady Devils are looking to get back on track after losing two consecutive games against Seward County Community College and Colby Colby Community College. ACC sits at 6-7 overall with a 1-3 record in…
Is governance still possible in Washington? Tuesdays announcement of a bipartisan deal that seems to assure eventual passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) surprisingly suggests that the answer might be yes. That, as much…
NEW YORK (AP) Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Times youngest ever person of the year today. Thunberg, 16, has become the face of the youth climate movement, drawing large crowds with…
A Christmas dance for area seniors is planned from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Iolas Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson Ave. Mike Jewell will serve as the DJ, with music, snacks and…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) The mayor of Jersey City said Wednesday its clear that gunmen in a furious shooting that left six people dead targeted a Jewish market. Mayor Steven Fulop refused to call…
The Kappa Alpha Chapter of Phi Tau Omega sorority business meeting was held Dec. 2 with 15 members in attendance at Community National Bank in Iola. Mary Ellen Stanley and Carla Hunt hosted the business…
Debra Lee Brooks, age 65, of Garnett, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at Anderson County Hospital, Garnett. She was born Nov. 18, 1954, to Donald and Frances (Miller) Nickelson in Colony. She married Bob Brooks…
Ever stop to contemplate how different life was before computers and smartphones? How inefficient and complicated those days seemed? Heres another thankfully distant memory: high inflation. Back in the 1970s that paycheck you earned began…
