Month: July 2011

Different times appeared in the official bracket sent out late Tuesday morning for the 2011 Kansas American Legion AA State Baseball Tournament in Ottawa.Iola Post 15’s AA Indians play Ottawa at 8:30 tonight instead of…

Youngsters dressed just like the big rodeo contestants, or in street clothes, try to go the required time on running and sometimes bucking sheep. What a fun time.Always a fan-favorite event, mutton busting returns as…

CHANUTE — Iola Swim Team’s Seahorses ended the summer season competing at the 2011 SEK Swim League Championships Saturday. The league swim meet was held at Chanute’s Maring Aquatic Center.Iola had 33 swimmers competing in…

It was ever so slight, but there was a hint of optimism at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Allen County Hospital trustees. “We think things are looking up. More so than in the last month…

The Iola school district might have solved the $340,000 problem Tuesday evening. Students who qualify for free and reduced lunches but don’t utilize the assistance program cost the Iola school district $2,000 per student each…

Allen County commissioners were lucky they didn’t nick a finger or two Tuesday morning when they sliced $865,000 from proposed tax revenue in their 2012 budget.Even so, the property tax levy is up 1.003 mills…

If Iola’s proposal to provide emergency medical services to all of Allen County is to go anywhere, the next step will be a citizens committee to examine issues in exacting detail.Ron Conaway, Iola ambulance director,…

Michael Patrick Blackwell, 69 of Yates Center died Saturday, July 23, 2011, at his home.Graveside inurnment services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Yates Center Cemetery. Memorials to Friends for Life may be…

Joseph Dale Hart of Humboldt, whose death on Thursday and funeral services were published in Saturday’s Register, was born on Nov. 24, 1957, in Falls City, Neb., to Wallace and Mary (Montgomery) Hart. He graduated…

Betty Jo Kilby, 86, of Iola  died Sunday, July 24, 2011, at her home.She was born July 2, 1925, in Yates Center, to Julius W. and Elizabeth M. (Hamilton) Linde. She graduated from Yates Center…