Month: March 2012

Lisa Rothwell, a Community Blood Center technician, preps Iolan Karen Lee to give blood Wednesday at the North Community Building. Lee’s donation was her 57th. By closing time, 55 units of blood had been drawn…

Cris Bacon didn’t think twice before picking up the phone She knows first-hand what it’s like to need help and not be able to find it. So when she saw the newspaper ad for a…

GARNETT – Thrive Allen County unveiled plans Wednesday to construct a $15,000 brick-columned, metal arch to go along the Prairie Spirit Trail near the intersection of U.S. 54 and the trail near the west edge…

GARNETT— Connie McCormick, 47, will spend the next year in an Anderson County jail cell for vehicular homicide for driving the car that crashed near Colony and killed her 13-year-old niece 22 months ago.  McCormick…

Ken Hunt was fired Tuesday afternoon as human resources director for the City of Iola.  The execution was made single-handedly by Mayor Bill Shirley, though no doubt he was heavily influenced by councilmen Ken Rowe…

Playing at home was the right prescription for Allen Community College’s softball team. The Red Devils were coming off a four-game losing skid on the road when Kansas City, Kan., Community College’s Blue Devils came…

NEODESHA — Humboldt High’s Lady Cubs rolled right out of the gate of the 2012 softball season and into two victories. The Lady Cubs made quick work of the Tri-Valley League doubleheader Tuesday. They posted…

UNIONTOWN— Opening the 2012 softball season evenly were the Uniontown High’s Eagles and Yates Center High Wildcats. The hosting Eagles used a five-run fifth inning to post a 10-5 victory in the first game. Yates…

BUFFALO — The Wildcats had it Tuesday. Whether it was the Yates Center High’s Wildcats or the Marmaton Valley High Wildcats, it didn’t matter. The two Wildcat boys’ track teams went 1-2 at Tuesday’s Altoona-Midway…

HUMBOLDT — Ready. Set. Go. Four nights of some of the most intense modified racing on dirt begins tonight at Humboldt Speedway. The King of America II Modified Nationals, a United States Modified Touring Series…