Two of the area’s biggest stars will go from wearing the same colors this season to becoming rivals next year.Humboldt’s Rayce Hoepker has ended his long recruitment and will stay local to attend Allen Community…

Bernardo Howard, 54, Artesia, N.M., passed away on Friday, April 14, in Lubbock, Texas, with both of his daughters by his side. Cremation has taken place under the direction of Terpening & Son Mortuary. Memorial…

Lilly Howland, 77, Wichita, passed away Wednesday, April 19, 2017.Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Baker Funeral Home, Wichita. Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m., Monday at Highland Cemetery, Iola.She was…

Donald Lee Isaac, 96, of Lake-view Village in Lenexa, passed away on March 26, 2017.  He was born May 5, 1920, to Clifford and Anna (Manbeck) Isaac at the family farm in Moran. He graduated…

Ralph Bernard Westerman, 55, passed away Saturday, April 15, 2017, at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospital in Wichita from complications of double pneumonia. Ralph was born Feb. 23, 1959, in Denver, Colo., the son of Eugene…

Marcell Seamster joined his son, Avion, for breakfast Friday at the Doughnuts with Dad event hosted by Humboldt Elementary School.

Francisco Foschino gave Iola Rotarians an informative and witty presentation about his home country, Chile, Thursday.Foschino, an exchange student, is a senior at Iola High School.Chile, he explained, is a sliver of a country along…

The recently created position, director of institutional research and reporting at Allen Community College, has brought Deanna Mann back to southeast Kansas.Mann’s role, as of April 1, is to collect, interpret and share data to…

Iolan Darrell Cole suffered injuries Friday in a fire that destroyed his house in the 300 block of South Chestnut Street.The early morning fire took several hours to contain, as firefighters repeatedly doused the structure…

One afternoon nearly 50 years ago, a 16-year-old farm girl named Rita overheard her father talking with another man. They were discussing the beleaguered state of the American small farm. The man was Mr. Arnold,…