Tag: Humboldt

On Tuesday, Yates Center and Humboldt golf competed at Fredonia.  The Wildcats continued their hot start despite very windy conditions with a first-place finish.  Easton Reynolds and Jack King tied for first overall and Reynolds…

Monica Criger’s pleasant nature is a byproduct of her work-a-day life. It’s the kids. “They keep you young,” said Monica, a paraprofessional at Humboldt Elementary for better than 20 years. Criger said she had intended…

HUMBOLDT — The revival of Humboldt’s downtown shopping district will take another step forward Saturday with the grand opening of jae & co., a store featuring a wide variety of new clothing for women, misses…

Though Maynard Cress has had plenty of time on tractors and herding cattle, his life is replete with a multitude of interests and activities. As a farm kid, he got his first horse at age…

Few people in Humboldt are more recognizable than Bev Ruse. That comes from working at the convenience store on North Ninth Street for better than two decades. If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would…

HUMBOLDT — After entertaining pitches from three architectural firms in a special meeting last week, the Humboldt board of education voted Monday to hire the Wichita-based firm DCS/GLMV to oversee a comprehensive evaluation of the…

HUMBOLDT — USD 258 board members will decide Monday night which architectural firm they will employ to evaluate facility needs. They and members of a citizens committee heard presentations from three firms Thursday evening: Landmark…

Sometimes dreams are amazingly real. Earlier this week, perhaps because of the frigid weather, Junior Gerken, embodied in a Dickensesque apparition, came to counsel. Though Junior died six years ago, his wisdom will long be…

Property taxes make up the centerpiece of an ongoing debate about whether USD 257 voters will support construction of a new elementary school in Iola, a new science building for Iola High School and improvements…

ARMA ? Separated by 25 miles of asphalt, Yates Center and Humboldt high schools have sported a rivalry as old as the hills. Their paths haven?t crossed as often as they once used to, now…