The Allen Community College volleyball team continued its recent losing skid Wednesday when it fell to Cowley Community College in three sets at home (25-16, 25-11, 26-24).The loss marks the seventh straight for the Lady…

For men’s coach Doug Desmarteau, it had been 17 days. For women’s soccer coach Jeremy McGinnis, it had been 18 days.Both the men’s and women’s soccer coaches for Allen Community College entered Wednesday starving for…

The Associated Press: A champion of what became known as Common Core education standards, Jeb Bush pushed a set of high-stakes tests for students and a system of grading schools as the centerpiece of an…

Wilma “Jean” Clark, 73, passed away Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, at the Unviersity of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.          .Jean attended school in Iola. Jean’s employment was in production, truck driving and motel…

Cheryl Ann “Cherie” Navin Schleeter, 71, of Marysville, Ohio, died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 at her home.  A 1961 graduate of Marysville High School and a member of First Presbyterian Church of Marysville, she was…

Joan Beal Beck, 83, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, October 5, 2015 at Windsor Place in Iola.She was born February 13, 1932, Ω mile west of the Diamond Methodist Church in Deer Creek Township in…

EUREKA — In one of the largest middle school cross country races of the year, the Ponies dominated from start to finish in the Eureka Invitational on Tuesday.The seventh-grade girls team won its one-mile race,…

The Iola High School volleyball team hosted a tournament Tuesday featuring Anderson County, Wellsville and Prairie View.The varsity, JV and freshman squads all competed.Iola’s varsity team, which was celebrating its senior night, lost to Prairie…

Allen County commissioners encouraged Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, to keep himself appraised of goings-on with the proposed construction of nearly 100 power-generating wind turbines north of LaHarpe and Moran.Commissioner Jim Talkington said Tuesday…

GAS — Clara Ellis and Clifford Peterson figured they’d try a “slow” opening for their restaurant.The pace was anything but.“For the first two hours we were open, we only had two empty chairs,” Ellis said.…