Lousy corn yields and fears of the same for soybeans are facts of life on the back side of this summer’s hot, dry weather.Most corn ears in today’s ready-to-harvest fields are short and pithy with…

Quint Lockwood and Patrick Cash were certain of two things at the end of a pepper-eating contest Thursday.Fellow competitor Jim Heinrich either has a stomach of iron, or he can bluff the most seasoned poker…

Competition on the pitch, even in practices, is at a high level for Allen County Community College’s 2011 men’s soccer team.ACCC head coach Doug Desmarteau will see quickly how that practice competition is working out.…

There was a tone of excitement in Doug Desmarteau’s voice as the head coach talked about the 2011 version of the Allen County Community College women’s soccer team.“We have 19 girls. This is the biggest…

Talk about something to prove. Iola High’s Mustangs set out on their final season in  Southeast Kansas League football picked to finish last in the 2011 season.That wasn’t a surprise slot for the Mustangs. They…

Don Mirrel Blauvelt, 64, Kincaid, died of leukemia on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.Funeral arrangements are pending.

Dear Editor, The 2011 Allen County Fair is now in the record books, and as the excitement dies down, we look back over the past year at all the hard work put in by the…

A woman who calls herself Annie Leonard is the author of “The Story of Stuff.” Annie thinks we pay way too much attention to stuff.“We’re in the midst of a triple crisis: economy, environment and…

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas got noticed right away in his first days as an active candidate for the Republican nomination for president. The headlines came when he called Ben Bernanke a traitor for the…

The Iola school district recently became one of only 24 previously underperforming Kansas school districts to be taken off “on improvement” status while 34 other districts were added to the undesirable list.No Child Left Behind,…