Month: September 2019

Mary J. Osborn entered into eternal life on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. Our mother was born in Fredonia, on Oct. 2, 1927, to Minnie (Lessman) and Bob Riggs. She was raised in Henrietta, Okla., and,…

Dear Dr. Roach: You put my life into disarray as I read your column on the risk of recurrence with respect to breast cancer! I promptly grabbed my retired pathologist husband, and he was floored…

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage “was on a long spiral of going down” and had been fired from his oil services job the morning he killed seven people, calling…

70 Years Ago September, 1949 LeRoy Roedel, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Roedel, Elsmore, is Allen County’s latest polio victim. His local physician said today that he became ill last Sunday and…

Spectators were looking for a battle. Instead, they got hugs. The setting was the much anticipated showdown Saturday night between Coco Gauff, who at 15 is being hailed as the heir apparent to Serena Williams,…

Dear editor, Something that bothers me is how older people can get free transportation but younger people don’t have those opportunities.   I have arthritis really bad in my knee and it takes all my…

Kansas Can, launched by the Kansas State Board of Education is a visionary project to create more effective PreK-12 learning.  Begun in 2017 with seven schools, today Kansas Can has grown to include 66 of…

An eight-week course is dedicated to help small business owners ready to grow their operations. The Growing Rural Business Entrepreneurial Certificate Program is offered for Allen and Neosho County Sept. 19 through Nov. 14.  Sessions…

Larry Wittmer gave the communion Sunday.  In 2011, GPS makers did away with “recalculating” messages when they took a wrong turn because people complained of being told they were wrong, Wittmer said.  In Psalm 32,…