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Clinics to get spruced-up spaces By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register
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A group tasked with taking care of hospital facilities will consider two separate remodel projects aimed at increasing clinic space at a cost of about $1 million. The Allen County Regional Hospital facilities board decided to pursue the two projects after a meeting Thursday, instead of moving all aspects of the hospital to its primary location. One is to remodel the former labor and delivery unit at
tors affiliated with St. Luke’s Health System in areas such as surgery, pulmonology, wound care and more. The other project would remodel the existing Medical Arts Building at Second and Madison streets, near G&W Foods, and use that as a physicians’ clinic. The ACRH health clinic at 401 S. Washington would move to that location.
The hospital’s Medical Arts Building at Second and Madison streets could get remodeled. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS the hospital, in order to create a new specialty clinic. The hospital no longer delivers
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Bleeding through the frigid winter Trevor Hoag Just Prairie
Roiling river The Neosho River in Iola is on the rise from the rains from the previous week, and will continue to rise with this week's rain predictions. Iola received 7.32 inches of rain over the weekend. REGISTER/KLAIR VOGEL
‘Dangerous’ heat wave strikes Northwest PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous. That’s how the National Weather Service described the historic heat wave hitting the Pacific Northwest, pushing daytime temperatures into the triple digits, disrupting Olympic qualifying events and breaking
all-time high temperature records in places unaccustomed to such extreme heat. Portland, Oregon, reached 112 degrees Sunday, breaking the all-time temperature record of 108, which was set just a day earlier. In Eugene, Oregon, the U.S. track and field trials were halted Sunday afternoon and fans were asked to
evacuate the stadium due to extreme heat. The National Weather Service said it hit 110 in Eugene, breaking the all-time record of 108. Oregon’s Capital city, Salem, also recorded the highest temperature in its history on Sunday: 112, breaking the old mark by 4 degrees. The temperature hit 104 See HEAT | Page A2
The past is full of horrors. And although they have seemingly passed, such events still haunt in the present, demand our attention and force reevaluation of our values. One such nightmare occurred at a place called Fort Row in northern Wilson County, just east of Coyville along the southern banks of the Verdigris River. The fort sprung up in fall 1861, built by local mounted militia to protect against the Confederate guerillas who were terrorizing Kansas from the east. Indeed, Humboldt had just been burned to ashes by Bushwackers and proslavery men from Missouri, and hence their fears were far from unfounded. John R. Row, the fort’s namesake and veteran of the Mexican-America War, was selected as militia captain, and he eventually had upward of 70 to 80 men in his
A mural in Le Roy depicts Muskogee chief Opothleyahola, who led thousands of indigenous people to Kansas in search of aid during the Civil War. COURTESY PHOTO company. Remnants of their occupation of the river banks are few, though a large white sign with black lettering was erected not far from the site a couple decades ago, though has since fallen into disrepair. FORT ROW was built on a fairly flat area not far from the “green-gray-bark-waters” of the Verdigris, in order to provide a wide view of the surrounding terrain. The steep river banks also See FORT | Page A4
Residents seek new town to protect rural lifestyle EDGERTON, Kan. (AP) — Residents living on the outskirts of a sprawling industrial park southwest of Kansas City hope that creating their own town will protect their rural lifestyle from encroaching development. Opposition to the massive Logistics Park Kansas City intermodal facility has been brewing for months, but it boiled over after the Edgerton City Council earlier this year agreed to rezone 700 rural acres to make way for more industrial properties south of Interstate 35, the Kansas City
Star reported. That’s bringing development closer to the rural homes residents say they bought to be surrounded by fields and pastures — not warehouses and semitrailers. They hope that incorporating their own town of will give them more say over their fates. “Our area is too beautiful, it is too important for the environment, and it’s our right,” said Jennifer Williams, who leads the effort. “So we wanted to find out what we could do to seal up that border so it See TOWN | Page A4
Democratic dialogue State treasurer Lynn Rogers addresses the crowd at an ice cream social hosted by the Kansas Democratic Party at the John Silas Bass North Community Building on Saturday. Also in attendance were DNC Chair Vicky Hiatt, DNC national representatives, Democratic chairpersons from six counties and multiple potential candidates. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG
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