CHANUTE — Iola High’s junior varsity baseball team had its ups and downs in Tuesday’s doubleheader at Chanute High.The Mustangs pushed ahead of their hosts, 8-0 after two and a half innings. It was 8-4…

Ten in a row.Allen County Community College’s Red Devil softball team made it 10 wins in a row Tuesday. At home, the Red Devils swept a Jayhawk Eastern Division doubleheader against the conference’s third-place team.The…

Not only did the high school golfers have to read the course at Allen County Country Club Tuesday, they had to learn to play the wind. Strong winds affected the flight and roll of golf…

Iola’s Riverside Park — containing some of the most indelible images of the 2007 flood — is now officially considered in a flood plain.Iola commissioners learned this week that the city’s updated flood maps, administered…

A new Allen County Hospital will be built north of Iola on virgin farmland that abuts U.S. 169 and sits about 2 miles north of U.S. 54.Hospital trustees selected the 20-acre rural site over a…

The adage “every vote counts” was never more evident Tuesday than in Humboldt.Challenger Richard Weilert defeated incumbent Vada Aikins by a single vote, 110 to 109, in their city council race.The winner, however, will not…

After more than two years of debating and three referendums to determine Iola’s next governing body, Iola voters Tuesday chose their new eight-member city council and mayor.Voters selected Bill Shirley, in the midst of his…

Robert J. “Bob” Ingram, 72, of Bronson died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at Via Christi Hospital in Wichita.  He was born March 13, 1939, in Chaplin, Ky., the son of Alvin Clay and Marjorie Lillian…

Former Bronson resident Mary Wilhelmenia Stewart, 89, died Monday, April 4, 2011, at Moran Manor.  She was born May 23, 1921, to Elizabeth and Edwin Wolf. She attended Dry Ridge School and Bronson High School. …

Brett and Briana Curry, Iola, announce the birth of a daughter, Kashyn Elizabeth, born March 25, 2011, at Allen County Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 18 1/4 inches long. She joins…