Allen County will assume management of the rail trail between Iola and Humboldt — in name only.County Counselor Alan Weber explained that a group of volunteers wanted to avoid having to incorporate to officially manage…

Eric Sanders is encouraged.Sanders, paramedic/supervisor with the county’s ambulance service, told county commissioners Tuesday he appreciated efforts to resolve the county having two ambulance services. He pointed out that mergers had occurred in Lawrence and…

All Allen County employees, including elected officials, will receive 2 percent cost of living adjustments in their wages and salaries. Hourly employees, about 100 of them, also will receive merit raises decided by department heads.Commissioners…

PARSONS — Allen Community College’s softball team had a rough go of it Tuesday.Playing their first games in more than two weeks because of weather, the Red Devils traveled to Parsons for a doubleheader against…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Iola native Joshua Honeycutt is a national champion.Honeycutt, who turns 24 Thursday, brought home the gold medal Sunday in the men’s triple jump at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.Honeycutt cleared…

An 800-foot section of U.S. 54 on the east side of Iola will receive a full-depth replacement from KDOT as a part of their larger U.S. 54 project.The Iola City Council held a special public…

The Iola City Council and Allen County Commissioners have moved one step closer to an agreement regarding an EMS merger.The two governing bodies agreed to form a sub-committee to generate ideas for a proposed merger,…

Allen Countian recalls working in the ’40s Hollywood, for decades, has tried to recreate the romance of the 1940s. The trials and tribulations of the war and what it took to make ends meet. Thora…

Lovanda Isabell Fisher Preston, 84, passed away on Sunday, March 3, 2013.She was born Nov. 7, 1928, in Iola, the daughter of Claude Dean and Mildred Sarah Cummings Fisher. She had two sisters, Betty Hill…

LeRoy “Bud” Breiner, 93, Erie, died at 5:45 a.m., Sunday, March 3, 2013, at the Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul. Death followed a brief illness.He was born Sept. 27, 1919, on a farm…