Month: August 2012

Returning to the playoffs is on the minds of all concerned with Allen Community College soccer. Both the Red Devil men and women are preparing for the 2012 season to begin and making a run…

Some people decide at an early age what they want to do with their lives. Others take a more measured approach. Danielle Schooler, new art instructor for Lincoln and McKinley elementaries, is in the second…

She might not have an office to call her own, but Susan Michael is busy at work as the new executive director of the Allen County Community Foundation (ACCF). In their six-month search for a…

Iola’s weather policy affecting youngsters during hot weather should be tightened, several Iola City Council members said. The councilmen were shown Monday a proposed set of rules by the Iola Recreation Department that would dictate…

With two new Iola City Council members now seated, Councilman Donald Becker wasted little time in addressing what he considered sore spots for the city. Most prominently, Becker said the city should offer former Human…

Commercial car washes will once again be unrestrained in what hours those businesses may be open. Iola City Council members eased the city’s water restriction policies for car washes, even though the city remains under…

Ed Bideau, local candidate for the House of Representatives, introduced a “new and bold” idea to USD 257 Board of Education members at their meeting Monday night. “I will communicate with you,” Bideau said, in…

Maxine Cuppet, 89, Savonburg, passed away Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, at Wilson Medical Center, Neodesha. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Savonburg Bible Church with burial at Mount Moriah, Savonburg.  The family…

A new visitor center will be built in the basement of the Kansas Statehouse and additional work will be done on the Capitol grounds at a total cost of about $17.4 million, the AP reported…

CHANUTE — Going 1-3 was not the start Allen Community College’s Red Devils expected to have to the 2012 volleyball season. “We struggled to maintain in matches. We can play competing to 12 to 18…