Month: September 2023

The Iola Municipal Band will be featured on an episode of “Positively Kansas” at 8 p.m. Friday on Wichita’s PBS Station, KPTS Channel 8. Chris Frank, a senior producer for PBS, was in Iola over…

MORAN — Saturday’s Moran Day celebration will remind festival-goers that “there’s no place like home.” The 2023 fall festival will sport the “Wizard of Oz” theme through several of its activities, which begin at 8…

IMI N’TALA, Morocco (AP) — The stench of death wafted through the village of Imi N’Tala high up in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains four days after a deadly earthquake struck, slicing off a chunk of mountain,…

DERNA, Libya (AP) — Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea for bodies in a devastated eastern Libyan city on Wednesday, where authorities said massive flooding had killed at least 5,100 people,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A fishing vessel owned by Greenland’s government will attempt to use high tide to pull free a Bahamas-flagged luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground in the world’s northernmost…

HUMBOLDT — Gary McIntosh, an avid animal-lover, informed Humboldt Council members Monday evening that Nov. 28 is known as the National Day of Giving and proposed the council consider a gift to the Allen County…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control…

Hope Unlimited and AmeriCorps Senior volunteers partnered Monday to honor local First Responders for 9/11 Day of Remembrance. 

My good friends know that my end is near. Several of them have flown from far away to see me in Texas. They come for an hour or two of conversation, and then they fly…

He’s back to play havoc on defenses in the Tri-Valley League and southeast Kansas.   Humboldt High senior Sam Hull stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 200 lbs. — a big target for quarterback Blake Ellis to…