Month: October 2022
Derek Schmidt, Republican candidate for Kansas governor, will be in Iola from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Iola Community Warehouse, 203 S. Jefferson, for a community conversation hosted by the Allen County Republican…
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum…
Change is afoot for Allen County. For the first time in a decade, local voters — part of the newly reformed Ninth Kansas House District — will have someone new representing Allen County in Topeka…
The NFL fined Bucs QB Tom Brady $11,139 for attempting to kick the Falcons’ Grady Jarrett after Brady was tackled. So there you have it: the league’s first roughing-the-sacker penalty. Headlines — At Fark.com: “What…
PARIS (AP) — Karim Benzema won the men’s Ballon d’Or for the first time on Monday after a brilliant season with Real Madrid capped by the Champions League and Spanish league titles. Spanish player Alexia…
Dr. Fred Gardner believes bureaucratic red tape would make it difficult for a veterinarian to start a new practice in Kansas these days. Gardner, age 69, a longtime veterinarian from Garnett, is running as a…
Dawn Staley and South Carolina picked up right where they left off: No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll. The defending national champion Gamecocks were the unanimous choice of the 30-member…
In “Because of Winn-Dixie,” a young girl rescues a scruffy dog that wrecked a grocery store. It’s a story about second chances, grief and loss, loneliness and friendship. It’s also Iola Elementary School librarian Daryl…
Dear Carolyn: My husband and I are expecting our first baby in February. After shopping around a bit, I finally have a doctor I like and am feeling less anxious about various health issues I’ve…
The biggest issue in the 2022 election might be the fact that we haven’t moved on from the last one. We’re still living in the shadow of former President Donald Trump’s Big Lie — a…
