Month: March 2017

Alberta Ann Jeffery, 82, Iola, died Sunday, March 5, 2017, at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Alberta was born Aug. 15, 1934 in Muskogee, Okla. She grew up in Muskogee and graduated from…

In a public hearing lasting all of six minutes, visiting judge Robert Fairchild heard opening gambits Tuesday morning in a case concerning the alliance between the Iola school district and the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.…

Allen County Counselor Alan Weber will seek bids for transport of bodies for autopsies. The decision came during a short commission session Tuesday morning. Ron Ballard, deputy coroner, owns a service, Quality Care, which came…

HUMBOLDT — Jerry Daniels has one of three votes on the Allen County Commission, and if he were to exercise it today, he would vote yes to allowing wind farms to take root.  “It’s exciting,…

Tornadoes can be fickle beasts, Joe Carver said Tuesday. “It’s like God is tracing a finger along and says, ‘this house needs to go, and this house needs to go, and this house can stay,”…

Iolans Carl LaGalle, left, along with Helen and Spencer Ambler receive their portion of eggs and sausage at today’s Lenten breakfast at St. John’s Catholic Church. Next Wednesday’s breakfast will be at Iola’s First Christian…

What a year for the Cubs. After breaking a 27-year drought from making it to state in volleyball just a few months ago, the Cubs are at it again. On Saturday, they clinched a spot…

BALDWIN CITY — Kelsey Larson and her Baker Wildcats made a bit of school history on Monday night when they secured the school’s first-ever women’s basketball Heart of America Athletic Conference Tournament championship.  The Wildcats…

Allen and Anderson counties commissioners have enacted documents setting out guidelines that must be observed for energy companies to erect wind-farm turbines. Anderson’s are stricter. If all or part of a wind farm is to…

Charlotte R. (Leap) Rutschman, 96, died Feb. 28, 2017, at Wesley Hospital in Wichita. Graveside committal service will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton. A memorial service will follow at 1…