Patricia Lynn Hammer, 69, of Colony, passed away on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, at Anderson County Hospital. Lynn was born Oct. 12, 1951, in Kansas City, Mo. She moved with her family to Iola, the…

“In America, the big get bigger and the small get out,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced to a crowd of dairy farmers a year ago. This march toward “progress” has been the steady…

Dear editor, In the Aug. 4 primary, Allen County voters approved a measure to loosen the county’s liquor laws be put on the Nov. 3 ballot. The measure eliminates the restriction on entertainment and dining…

A gaffe, one famous political writer once explained, is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. By that measure, Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle came up with a show-stopper in late September, while speaking to…

Velma Mae Morgan took off her earthly robe of clay at the age of 88, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. In its place she has put on a robe of righteousness that will never grow…

State Sen. Barbara Bollier, the Democrat, is the moderate in the race for the U.S. Senate.  That’s because until two years ago, Bollier was a Republican, championing fiscally responsible measures to fund education, build roads…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Barbara Bollier said Monday that she raised nearly $13.5 million in three months for her U.S. Senate campaign, a record for Kansas that brought her total fundraising to more than…

LA CYGNE — It only seemed like they were tackling actual buffaloes. Iola High’s return to the gridiron — the Mustangs’ first game back from a three-week, COVID-19-related layoff — was painful in more ways…

LAHARPE — David Froemming has acquired a bit of history. Froemming, of Humboldt, has purchased the first — and perhaps only — “tiny” home built by the construction trades class at LaHarpe’s Regional Rural Technical…

The cascading global governance, health, economic and environmental crises have exacerbated the food crisis. So it was fitting that an indefatigable international institution dedicated to fighting hunger — the United Nations World Food Program —…