Month: July 2010

CHANUTE — The Kansas American Legion AA Zone 4 baseball tournament got under way Thursday at Chanute’s Lindbald Field in Katy Park.Sedan outlasted Halstead 7-6 in nine innings. Sedan plays Iola Post 15’s Indians tonight…

Being excited that the Kansas City Royals were playing even or almost even with the New York Yankees Thursday night through seven innings reminded me of a baseball movie quote.In the 1994 movie, “Little Big…

Iola Community Theatre“One Night Stand”Free performance by Jared EllisICT Warehouse, 7 p.m. Ball Brothers concertFree performanceFirst Christian Church, 7 p.m. Relay For LifeBenefit for the American Cancer SocietyEvents start at 5 p.m.12-hour relay starts at…

Midway through the season, the Allen County Farmers Market is in full swing Thursday evenings along the west side of the square.“We now have 40 vendors registered,” reported Debbie Bearden, secretary of the organization and…

YATES CENTER, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in southeast Kansas have seized more than 1,600 marijuana plants growing in rural Woodson County.Now, they’re looking for whoever was growing the illegal weed.Woodson County Sheriff Shannon Moore told…

Mitchell and Valecia Kanak, Leavenworth, an-nounce the birth of their first child, Mason Cale, born June 26, 2010, at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. He weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces and was 20…

Kris Kobach was chairman of the Kansas Republican Party in 2007 and 2008. Christian Morgan worked for him as executive director. The two ran the office so sloppily and spent money so profligately that the…

Members of the Sigg Motors 8-and-under traveling baseball team are (left to right) front row, Eli Smith, Dillon Bycroft, C.J. Shields, Noah Ashmore, Cole Rogers, Zane Whitney; back row, coach Matt Wiggin, coach Troy Smith,…

HUMBOLDT — Excessive heat prompted a decision by Humboldt Speedway owners to suspend the 2010 go-kart season.“With the temperatures as hot as they were Sunday afternoon, we decided to postpone races in August and September,”…

Iola American Legion Post 15’s Indians are the No. 2 seed in this weekend’s Kansas American Legion  AA Zone 4 Tournament at Chanute.The top seed is Baxter Springs. The two teams earned first-round byes.Zone 4…