Month: May 2013

The Iola Middle School Basketball Camp and League, for all incoming sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, starts Monday and goes through June 21 in the middle school gymnasium.The boys camp runs from 9:30 to 11 a.m.…

WICHITA — Area athletes brought home medals, with a number of near misses for others Friday and Saturday at the state track meet.Marmaton Valley High’s Daylen Houk brought home a fifth-place medal in the Class…

WICHITA — Iola High’s Tyler Powelson and Ashley Campbell brought home some state track hardware over the weekend, with promises to return for more next year.Powelson, a junior, earned a seventh-place medal Saturday in the…

WICHITA — The chase was on.The only question was whether Humboldt High’s Tanner McNutt, racing in his fourth  and final state race in a span of just over three hours Saturday, would have enough left…

Lewis R. “L.R.” Parker, 81, of Gas, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2013, at his home.L.R. was born May 7, 1932, in Joplin, Mo., the son of Edgar and Janie (Foster) Parker. He attended schools…

Carl Slaugh’s military history is atypical to many of those in the armed forces. It has taken him from the plains of Texas and mountains of Utah to the skies of Germany, spanning his 20-year…

As darkness enveloped the banks of the Mekong River on a humid evening in 1970, a 53-foot gunboat with machines and a grenade launcher settled into a coordinated position.Stillness engulfed the boat, as sailors took…

U.S. Navy Ensign Joel Andrew Tidd, son of Iolan David Tidd and the late Julie Tidd, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Friday. Tidd completed four years of intensive academic, physical and…

Iola High head coach Mark Percy, left, consoles Trent Latta after the Mustangs were defeated by Topeka-Hayden, 6-4, in the Class 4A championship game in Salina Friday evening. The loss was the only setback for…

HUTCHINSON — While Allen Community College’s track season just ended, the program’s ascendence “is just getting started,” head coach Vince DeGrado said. “Overall I couldn’t have been happier with everybody’s development,” DeGrado said. “To think,…