Month: July 2015

A group of 4-H’ers hopes to make chicken salad out of chicken … well, feathers.Sparked by an ongoing avian influenza epidemic in the Midwest, the Kansas Department of Agriculture announced in June a ban on…

Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli was born in Frontenac, and grew up in the Little Balkans — the name variously given to that part of southeast Kansas where Europeans flocked more than a century ago to…

Ione Faye Gineste, 85, Gas, died Saturday, July 25, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola.Ione was born July 8, 1930, in Mapleton, the daughter of Newton G. and Lula Mae (Needham) Myrick. She…

FORT SCOTT — The P.A. announcer introduced Iola head coach Roland Weir as “Ronald.”And that’s about the only thing that went wrong for the Indians during their first zone tournament contest on Thursday night.Iola AA…

When I reached down into the water, running my hand along monofilament line, it came to the fish’s mouth. The hook of a spinner bait seemed firmly implanted, but the bass had entangled the line…

When measuring success, we all start at different points on the stick.The metric to measure is how far you’ve come. So even though Stacey Hodges crossed the finish line “dead last” last Saturday night, she’s…

“Tell them how rewarding it is to be a volunteer,” Sherrie Riebel said in asking folks to help deliver meals when Allen County takes over the Meals on Wheels program Aug. 3.The county stepped up…

Iola City Council members will discuss Monday whether cell phone usage laws should be tightened in city limits.Legislators introduced a bill in the 2015 session to expand on the 2911 state law banning texting and…

For nine days out of the year the Allen County Fairgrounds come alive with activity. Pigs are led around show rings, funnel cakes are consumed and cowboys attempt to ride 8 seconds on the back…

OSAWATOMIE — Osawatomie State Hospital is a collection of brick buildings set among a quiet, leafy campus on a hill overlooking the Marais des Cygnes valley.Many of the looming, century-old structures still cast a shadow…