Month: August 2018

MEDICINE LODGE — July 21, 2018, will be a day Emma Jo, Gary and their son, Flint Rucker, will not soon forget. Flint remembered arriving at his parents’ house late that afternoon with a watermelon…

Republicans in Allen County’s Second District will gather Aug. 14 to select a replacement for Tom Williams, who is resigning his County Commission seat. Williams is resigning in order to take a job with the…

Voters in or near Humboldt and LaHarpe will have new polling places to cast their votes during Tuesday’s primary election. Humboldt voters will cast their ballots at the Humboldt United Methodist Church, 806 N. Ninth…

Luella Huntley may be retiring but she isn’t ready to stop working. She’s spent more than 70 of her 88 years employed in one capacity or another. She retired Tuesday from Walmart, where she’s worked…

A task force assigned to look at future management of Allen County Regional Hospital agreed Wednesday there’s still time to consider all options on the table. “We have a year and a half,” noted Alan…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Police Chief Brian Dillow has been placed on administrative leave, days after criminal charges were filed against him. Humboldt City Administrator Cole Herder announced the suspension in an email to the Register.…

LAHARPE — One of Allen County Animal Rescue Facility’s missions is to encourage pet owners to have their animals spayed or neutered as a means to control the population of feral or otherwise neglected dogs…

Allen County Commissioner Tom Williams will soon join the Kansas Attorney General’s office to lead fraud and abuse investigations. The lead paragraph in a Wednesday article detailing Williams’s new duties was vague enough that some…

Truth, it’s said, is the first casualty of war. That helps explain why combat metaphors so often get applied to political campaigns. The battlefield of the Kansas governor’s race bears out the maxim. Even when…

Kathryn Jean Jones, 84, Winfield, passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2018, at Winfield Senior Living. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, at the Shelley Family Funeral Home of Winfield. There will be a…