“This is the year of the hospital,” Allen County’s three commissioners pronounced at the Thrive Allen County annual meeting last fall.Chuck Wells emphatically agrees.Speaking at a very well attended public meeting Tuesday night in La-Harpe,…

Another youth tennis clinic will be held next week at Iola’s tennis courts at Colborn Park.Kent and Scott Toland, both former state high school tennis players for Iola High, are the instructors. The clinic on…

Iola Swim Team’s Seahorses are getting a workout. It started at home Wednesday night hosting the Chanute Sharks in SEK Swim League action.The Seahorses are back in home waters Saturday morning. They host Cherryvale in…

MORAN — Congressman Jerry Moran will pay a visit to the town with the same name Monday morning at a “pancakes and handshakes” breakfast from 7 to 8:30 at Moran Senior/Community Center, 407 Cedar St.…

WELDA — Anderson County Sheriff Scott Brownrigg recently watched a steady stream of vehicles bypass highway construction being done to replace an old railroad overpass with a less imposing structure by using a “local access”…

Preschool to open at Windsor Place The generation gap will narrow this fall when a USD 257 preschool opens at Windsor Place in Iola.The project grew out of a Windsor Place initiative to improve the…

LAHARPE — Transfers between LaHarpe’s various utility funds took center stage Wednesday as City Council members began discussing the city’s 2011 operating budget.Council member Harry Lee Jr. noted, for example, that the city transferred $55,682…

Gabe Hobbs and Leah Ramsey announce the birth of their son, Fisher Eli Hobbs, born at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado on July 3, 2010. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and…

Kenneth Leon “Tarz” French, 74, of Le Roy died Monday, July 12, 2010, at St. Francis Health Center in Topeka.He was born May 10, 1936, in Le Roy, to George Washington Charles and Delora Maria…

Memorials for Serilda Cassandra “Cassie” Damron, whose obituary was published in Tuesday’s Register, may be given to Iola Senior Center on North State Street or Moran Manor Activities Fund. Memorial gifts may be left at…