Local News
For 45 years Craig Mentzer has been farming his land in Geneva, an unincorporated town in northwestern Allen County.
ERIC SPRUILL
Gene Meiwes can’t help but keep a sunny disposition, regardless of the weather.
RICHARD LUKEN
This is the final article in a four-part series about the properties on Jackson Avenue sold to USD 257 to build a new science and technology building at the Iola High School campus.
VICKIE MOSS
Sports
New scenery usually means uncertainty, just ask Colony native Zach Beckmon. The Lancer’s ace was unaware how this summer would pan out after agreeing to join the AA Iola Indians for the summer.
Erick Mitchell
HUMBOLDT — With state on the horizon, the A Iola Indians participated in a scrimmage Thursday evening against the AA Indians.
Erick Mitchell
At last week’s MLB All-Star game, Houston Astros ace Gerrit Cole called out 50 percent of Major League for purposely losing.
Erick Mitchell
State News
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Students in certain grades at Kansas public and private schools will be required to have two new vaccinations this year.
Associated Press
Three years ago, rancher and farmer Jay Young got intrigued by a YouTube video.
By Corinne Boyer
A man who was permanently banished from Kansas as a condition of his plea deal in a criminal case is seeking to return to the state with the help of an organization that says the punishment harkens back to “draconian penalties of Ancient Greece or the vigilante justice of the Old American West.”
By Roxana Hegeman
National News
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man scaled several floors down the side of a 19-story building in Philadelphia to escape a fire that injured four residents and three police officers.
The Apollo 11 landed on the moon July, 20, 1969. The three-part spacecraft was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles of terrain in t
Opinion
Our stories this week by Reporter Vickie Moss about the four owners who have sold their homes to make way for a new science and technology center at Iola High School, seem to have touched a few nerves, evidenced by the response on the Register’s Facebook page.
Susan Lynn
Before his resignation last year, Greitens’ brief tenure as governor featured a strong tendency toward secrecy.
The St. Joseph News-Press
With Democrats planning a vote this week on a bill more than doubling the federal minimum wage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has weighed in with a timely estimate of the potential benefits — and costs.
The Washington Post
Ask the Register
Since he left Kansas to serve as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has kept a busy schedule while traveling the world.
By Vickie Moss
If all goes well, Iola’s Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park will be ready for the public by early summer.
RICHARD LUKEN
A long-range master plan for USD 257 eventually could shift the Iola High School campus to the east side of Cottonwood Street, though that could be years away.
By Vickie Moss
Photos
The 54th annual Little Oscars celebration — themed “An Evening on Broadway” — highlighted another banner year for the Iola High School Drama Department, and its two main productions, “She Kills Mon
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