COLONY — Points were hard to come by for Crest High’s Lady Lancers Thursday evening.The visiting Jayhawk-Linn High squad held the Lady Lancers scoreless through the first quarter. Crest put together its only extended rally…

WELLSVILLE — Iola High’s basketball schedule is filled with aggressive, physical teams that play a similar style as Wellsville, whom the Mustangs faced for the first time this season on Friday.“There aren’t many as good…

WELLSVILLE — Iola High’s Fillies were more focused and relaxed Friday than they’d been earlier in the week, head coach Becky Carlson noted.“That’s what happens when your shots are falling,” she said.Iola’s shots were falling…

BURLINGTON — Iola High’s Bryce Misenhelter guaranteed himself a return trip to the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament Friday.The Iola High senior, wrestling at 195 pounds, swept past his first two opponents to seal a…

Half jokingly I mentioned the other day I was thinking about trading off my old pickup truck.“You can’t do that,” a friend replied. “No one would know you in a new one.”I bought my Ford…

The only Kansan I have heard participating in the 2014 Olympics is Allison McFarland, a business and economics professor at Bethel College, Newton. McFarland, 52, is working as a volunteer at the event. The experience…

Dear editor,In reference to the article “The cost of a good meal,” on Feb. 10, I was wondering why we always hear shop local?When I was an employee of the food service for USD 257…

In brief remarks Wednesday morning Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins said any suggestion of raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour is “a job killer.”The theory goes that if employers are forced to pay more they…

LaHARPE — Larry Trester’s long-held dream is about to come true.“We’ve wanted a fire barn, a place to keep all the trucks together, for a long time,” said Trester, chief of LaHarpe’s Rural Volunteer Fire…

As local students have proved over the past few months, pennies can really add up.Students from Jefferson Elementary and Iola Middle School donated a total $1,064.39 on Wednesday to the MOMs group for the construction…