Cool weather came right on cue.It’s high school football night for area teams and it feels like fall today.Tonight’s games played in cool temperatures will be a big change for the players. They’ve had to…

AnDrea Cleaves didn’t plan for a career in education.For Cleaves, going to college was “about having fun,” she said.Cleaves, hired this fall as Allen County Community College’s Iola campus dean, said “I was the kind…

Katarina McIntosh, a freshman at Allen County Community College, is studying performing and visual arts — a natural since she’s been drawing “as long as I can remember.”“When I was little, my grandmother would give…

Branden and Susie Valentine, Olathe, announce the birth of a daughter, Kourtney Shea, born July 30, 2010, at Olathe Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces and was 20 inches long. She joins a…

This letter has to do with a few things that have been on my mind lately.In regard to the rail trail extending to Riverside Park: that is a joke.For safety sake, a stop light will…

Aside from politics, the war in Iraq that began in 2003 has a haunting human side.More than 4,400 U.S. military personnel have died and about 32,000 have been wounded, many so severely their lives have…

Monday evening John Smith and Pam Beasley, Allen County’s emergency management di-rector, told a dozen people how to establish a local community emergency response team (CERT). Once up and running, members would help professional emergency…

The Iola Open golf tournament was held Aug. 21-22. Rounds were played at Allen County Country Club and Cedarbrook Golf Club.In the men’s division, Russell Cole took first place with A.J. Evans in second. Marty…

It was not the start they wanted in Jayhawk Eastern Division play. Allen County Community College’s Red Devils got beat in straight sets at home Wednesday.The Red Devils were up 20-14 in the first set.…

Questions will be answered Friday night under the lights of Independence’s Emmott Field.Iola High’s Mustangs and host Independence High’s Bulldogs put their 2010 editions on the football field Friday. It’s the season opening ball game…