Month: January 2020
August 1942 was a catastrophic month for my German ancestors. On Aug. 5, the Nazis herded my great-grandfather onto a train in Berlin bound for the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Five days later and 650 miles…
Dear Carolyn: I have always wanted to have a family one day, and I think I still do. I love my husband, and I love the idea of making people who have a little bit…
WASHINGTON — For most of his 29 years in Congress, Bernie Sanders was mainly a left-wing gadfly, a relentless critic of the bipartisan Cold War consensus and a defender of regimes that resisted U.S. power.…
Last week, Virginia’s legislature approved, and its governor is expected to sign, a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which proposes that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged…
Iola City Administrator Sid Fleming will leave his post in March. Fleming’s resignation announcement was given last week in a private meeting with Iola City Council members. Fleming, who has been in Iola for the…
Nestled among 80,000 of their closest friends Sunday at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium stood a small contingent of Farm-City Days Committee volunteers. The FCD members were there for their final concession booth project of the…
Area legislators gave local citizens a preview of this year’s state Legislative session at a meeting Monday night sponsored by Allen County Farm Bureau. Representatives Kent Thompson, rural LaHarpe, and Ken Collins, Frontenac, were there…
FREDONIA A sluggish first half was a distant memory by the time Iola High ran rampant past Douglass on Monday night. Ranked as the top seed in this weeks Wilson County Classic, the Mustangs…
FREDONIA Sharp shooting told the story in Iola Highs blowout win over Yates Center in round 1 of the Wilson County Classic. The Fillies connected on six first-half 3-pointers to pull away early, and…
They hang side by side in the San Francisco home of Joe Montana the last uniform he wore with the San Francisco 49ers, and his last with the Kansas City Chiefs. With those teams…
