The Allen Community College men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree on Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.The men’s squad finished the 8k in second place as a team with 62…

Susan Hawk, with Allen County Regional Hospice, spoke  at the September See, Hear Iola Friday about the services hospice provides for patients.Hospice is a service for a patient who has received the news that they…

Carri Sailor’s dream job started today.Sailor, and husband Mike, are the proprietors at Rookies Sports Bar & Grill, which opened its doors this morning at 105 E. Jackson Ave.The venue is billed as a place…

My initial reaction to the news of Rep. John Boehner announcing his resignation as speaker of the house was, he caved.But then, I thought, he’s only human. And after four years, he just doesn’t have…

By 1979, thanks to development of a vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s, polio was a thing of the past in the United States. That wasn’t true elsewhere, until starting in 1985 when…

LAHARPE — LaHarpe is applying for as much as $400,000 in state aid to assist the city in upgrading its electric infrastructure. Total project cost would be $830,000, with the remainder coming from revenue generated…

The news of the imminent closing of Mercy Hospital in Independence has many rural Kansans on edge as to whether their local hospitals are also in danger.Jay Kretzmeier, an Iola accountant who has served on…

Richard L. Ellis, 71, former Iola resident, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at his home in St. Genevieve, Mo.Memorial graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, at the LaHarpe Cemetery in LaHarpe.Waugh-Yokum & Friskel…

John Robert Reiter, 93, Colony, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at Residential Living Center in Garnett.John was born July 1, 1922, in Geneva, the son of Scott and Pearl (Crocker) Reiter. On July 25, 1944,…

OSAWATOMIE — At the start of Iola’s 47-26 loss to Osawatomie, the Trojans sent over a gift that proved most cruel: Hope.The present, wrapped in a Trojan horse of deceit, came when Brice Aiello’s 5-yard…