Betty Hawley of Elsmore has no need for a catheter or a knee brace, thank you very much. So alarms went off when she recently received a statement saying her Medicare account had been charged…

TOPEKA — Kansas Tourism, a division of the Kansas Department of Commerce, recently announced $117,780 has been awarded in the 2023 Tourism Marketing Grant Awards Program. The grants are designed to assist local tourism organizations…

Life a century ago was changing by the day. The Industrial Revolution was in full swing. Telephones and cars, once considered luxuries for the very rich, were increasingly available for the common man. As such,…

There’s little idle time for Blake Boone these days. The Colony resident has teamed up with his mother, Jennifer Chester, as the new owners of The Mat, formerly Iola Soap and Suds, at 116 E.…

Preschoolers have big emotions. They might feel happy or sad or anything in between. Helping them learn how to identify and react to those emotions is no easy task, but it’s important for young children…

Downtown Elsmore will be the setting Saturday for the Elsmore Ruritan’s 56th anniversary Rural-Town Day celebration.  The first celebration marked the club’s charter as a community support club in the Elsmore and surrounding areas. Activities…

It must have been an insightful lot who chose the name Humanity House for the non-profit organization, because right now, they’re banking on donations to pull them through.  It’s been since the first of July…

Wayne Faulkner, Woodson County commissioner, was killed Monday afternoon in a car crash, while his wife, Karen, is recuperating at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka. Faulkner, age 72, was serving his first term as a…

Colony was abuzz Saturday with an energy and excitement unique to Colony Day, the town’s annual celebration. True to form, this year’s event started with a breakfast of biscuits and gravy thanks to the Colony…

Throngs of music lovers headed to Humboldt this weekend for the second edition of the Middle of Everywhere music festival. On a sweltering Sunday afternoon Sister Lucille kicked things off at Camp Hunter, where attendees…