Tag: holiday

Tuesday night’s performance was part magic, glee and glitter. Almost 200 kindergarten and first-graders performed “Rockin’ the Holidays,” before three times as many family members and friends at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Successfully corralling…

The Humboldt community kicked off the Christmas season with its annual Bike Around the Square event on Friday evening, which featured downtown light displays, stations to roast hot dogs and make s’mores and visits with…

If you turn on the radio, you may hear that “it’s the most wonderful time of the year.” But the holiday season can bring with it many stressors, from trying to have flawless decorations to…

Plenty of fun could be found in the area over the Halloween holiday weekend, culminating with trick-or-treating on Monday evening. The Iola Elementary School offered its first all-school Halloween parade, and the Iola Public Library…

Some spooky fun is in store for youngsters starting Saturday with a number of activities for area youngsters. The Iola Public Library will host a Haunted Library Tour from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Children…

The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. Travelers seemed to be experiencing fewer delays and canceled flights early Friday…

The July 4 holiday brings about food, fun and the obligatory fireworks. Exactly when residents can shoot off their firecrackers — and how late they can do so — depends on where they live. Fireworks…

Coronavirus infections are already reaching unprecedented levels throughout the U.S. Now with Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror and Christmas and New Year’s just around the curve, the question is: Just how much worse is the…

A jolly elf and Santa Claus join Humboldt’s “Bike Around the Square” event Friday evening. Stores stayed open late for Black Friday shopping.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A traditional day of celebration turned into one of protest Friday, as Americans marked Juneteenth, a holiday that long commemorated the emancipation of enslaved African Americans but that burst into the…