Now it may sound selfish, but may I suggest that this Christmas you not forget yourself.For me, it means taking some time to reassess my values, not only as a person, but also as a…

Each year at Thanksgiving, wife Beverly likes to play a game. She asks us all to tell what we’re thankful for. This year she framed the question with Christmas.As the comments came from around the…

The evening of Jan. 29 Allen County’s planning commissioners are expected to complete a document laying out what is required of a company to locate a wind farm in the county.Of emphasis will be a…

More than 58,000 U.S. military personnel were killed during the Vietnam War. Far more enemy soldiers and Vietnamese civilians perished.Now, more than 41 years since hostilities ended, some young Americans may be at risk of…

Dear editor, This letter is to recognize two of Iola’s city employees for their job performance. At about 3:45 a.m. on Sunday I awoke and noticed my house felt colder than usual and that my electricity…

Humboldt council members last week rejected by the narrowest of margins (4-3) a proposal to mark a multi-user lane on Ninth State to provide what proponents said would be safer use of the street by…

Iola council members were told last Monday sales tax distribution to the city, compared to a year ago, was flat. Several reasons were suggested. The primary one may be that more people are buying merchandise…

Every time I lapse into a funk over the prospect of Donald Trump as president I chide myself to remember we live in a democracy and must accept the election’s outcome. Yes, Hillary leads by…

We’ve all experienced coincidences, and here’s one for the books. A few nights ago I was in my den — I don’t like the term man cave — and plopped a chunk of sugarless gum…

Human suffering is the product of the immense unrest in Syria and elsewhere in the Mideast. A secondary tragedy is the loss of innumerable religious and archeological treasures.Many of the cities date to well before…