Month: April 2011

Being a team that is out to prove something works best in playoff situations, says Allen County Community College head softball coach Ed Wilkerson.Wilkerson has stressed this to his Red Devils players all week. For…

Allen County Community College’s Theatre Department brings to life the classic tale of the swashbuckling bandits who steal from the rich and give to the poor in its presentation of “Robin Hood,” which opens tonight…

About 40 volunteers are scheduled to make a mile of the Prairie Spirit Trail in Iola as clean as a whistle on Saturday. The group of Thrive Allen County volunteers and students in the Iola…

Anne Frank may be the most famous Jew interned and killed in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was but one of 5,886,000 who lost their lives in the genocide.Iola High School drama…

Sundra J. Meitler, 54, of Sylvan Grove, died Sunday, April 24, 2011.She was born Oct. 26, 1956, in Oroville, Calif. She was a high school teacher.She is survived by her husband, Kenneth L. Meitler, Sylvan…

Jerry Marvin Beal, 74, of Kerrville, Texas, who was born in Iola to J. Miller and Katie (Smith) Beal, died Sunday, April 20, 2011, at his home.Services were April 13 in Kerrville.

Patricia Brown Becker, 66, of Humboldt died Monday, April 25, 2011, at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park following a brief illness.She was born on Jan. 24, 1945, in Tacoma, Wash., to Charles and Lucille…

Among the thorny questions that continue to bloody Kansas lawmakers is whether to change the public employees pension system and how to fund it adequately.The current KPERS pays retirement pensions based on salaries earned while…

CHERRYVALE — Humboldt High’s Lady Cubs had to be a little disappointed when the rain came Tuesday night.They had suffered an 11-1 setback in Tri-Valley League softball action to host Cherryvale High’s Lady Chargers. They…

UNIONTOWN — Uniontown High’s softball team held off a rally by Northeast High’s Vikings for a 6-5 win to open Tuesday’s Three Rivers League doubleheader.But in the second game, the Vikings came up with a…