“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.” Psalm 116:15 One year and five months after her husband, Ross David Fite, was taken to heaven, God chose to call his…

Dear editor,This year marks the 43rd anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that legalized abortion in America. Since then abortion has taken nearly 58 million lives in our country.…

What on earth, asked a friend, is a haint.Genesis of the question was me cautioning him not to rap his knuckles on the wall. Why? came the response. Because my grandmother, born and raised in…

Tom Williams, in the last year of his first four-year term on the Allen County Commission, filed Friday for re-election to the 2nd District seat.Williams, a former Kansas Bureau of Investigation special agent, won election…

When Susan Raines mentions the Bowlus Fine Arts Center is hosting the John P. Harris art collection for the next couple of months, she’s typically greeted with a shrug, or perhaps a slight nod in…

After a 36-year association, ACC’s board of trustees voted this week to sell Allen Farm.The project was begun in 1979 with the hope of turning a portion of farmland 5 miles north of Iola into…

You wouldn’t know Gov. Sam Brownback was addressing Kansans Tuesday night in his annual address.He didn’t mention the budget and its projected $190 million shortfall for fiscal year 2017. Not a whisper of Osawatomie State…

Mary M. (Workman) Ramsey, 75, Pittsburg, formerly of Colony, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, at her home.She was born Aug. 9, 1940, in Logan, W.Va., the daughter of Elbert and Vivian Irene (Justice)…

MORAN — For more than a year, school officials in Allen County have pursued ways to better teach students they know probably aren’t going to college.The usual barriers — cost and logistics — often stood…

LAHARPE — LaHarpe residents can once again enter a level utility payment plan.City Council members endorsed a new policy Wednesday for the level pay plan to begin in February.A handful already have signed up, City…