June 2020

Masks are a courtesy, not a burden

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I hate wearing a mask because I feel like there is a hand constantly over my mouth (which I sometimes need). I hate when other people are wearing masks even more because I cannot understand what they are saying.

Beware the digital KGB roaming the streets

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Social media has given everyone with an opinion the power of both anonymity and number.

Floyd Joseph Marceaux, Jr.

Lucia Lea Weirich Lucia Lea Weirich, died on September 2, 2019 at the Hallmark Nursing Center, in Denver, Co. Lucia was born May 24, 1945, to Cleo & Roy Weirich, of Council Grove, KS.  Lucia was the 4th child born into this family. Lucia attended a one room school house, Centerview, for the first six years of her education. She transferred to Washington Elementary in Council Grove for 7th and 8th Grade. Lucia graduated from Council Grove High School in 1963.

Pakistan to ground 150 pilots for cheating to get licenses

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s state-run airline said Thursday it will ground 150 pilots, accusing them of obtaining licenses by having others take exams for them after a probe into last month’s crash that killed 97 people in Karachi.

Report: ‘Baffling’ errors at vets home amid deadly outbreak

(AP) - The leadership of a home for aging veterans in Massachusetts where nearly 80 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died packed dementia patients into a crowded unit as the virus spread, one of several “utterly baffling” decisions that helped the disease run rampant, investigators said in a report released Wednesday.

Justices rule for Trump administration in deportation case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can deport some people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge.

Mail-in ballots thrust Postal Service into presidential race

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service’s famous motto — “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers” — is being tested like never before, by challenges that go well beyond the weather.

La. paramedic, musician fired for post that shows KKK hood

LAFAYETTE (AP) — A Louisiana musician has been fired from his job as a paramedic after he posted an image on social media of a person wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood in a grocery store and a drawing of a car running into protesters.

Margaret Ann Drake Engleton

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It’s with great sadness and heavy hearts that the family of Margaret Ann Drake Engleton announces her passing from this life on June 16, 2020, at the age of 57.

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