Month: January 2021

HUMBOLDT — It’s not ideal playing the same team twice in five days, Humboldt Middle School boys basketball coach Jeremy Weilert admitted. But his Cubs had little problem with it. Humboldt jumped in front of…

Crowds at high school sporting events will soon get a bit larger. The Kansas State High School Activities Association’s Board of Directors agreed Wednesday to allow greater numbers of spectators at winter sports activities, namely…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The top health official in Kansas has told lawmakers that the state will likely see a small uptick in immediate supply of the COVID-19 vaccine with the change in presidential administrations.…

Allen Community College’s men packed a season’s worth of frustration and heartbreak into one night Wednesday. The Red Devils fought tooth-and-nail against Labette Community College, but were sunk by a 3-pointer from the Cardinals’ Ghage…

The best thing about the president’s inauguration speech is that it was classic Joe Biden.  Plainspoken. Upbeat. And full of heart. Yes, we face challenges. But we can not let them be our undoing. Amid…

The last time a swarm of birds wreaked this much havoc, it may have been part of a Hitchcock film. The Labette Cardinals — the nation’s top-ranked NJCAA-II women’s team —  made life miserable for…

Joe Biden began his presidency on Wednesday with the same animating philosophy that guided his campaign: The center can hold. That’s a big wager. American society is more brittle now than it has been in…

YATES CENTER — Yates Center High’s basketball teams proved to be rather inhospitable hosts, at least on the basketball court, as the school opened its midseason tournament. The Wildcat boys took the early lead, then…

In order to assist the Iola Police Dept. in the recovery of stolen or lost bikes and encourage observance of traffic rules by bicycle riders, bicycles licenses will be sold at 25 cents each, and…

The Kansas Legislature returned to Topeka last week, and the state and nation in January 2021 looks nothing like the state and nation of January 2020. Last year at this time, we had no inkling…