Before too many months, USD 257 board members are likely to ask voters to approve a bond issue to make improvements to local schools. The composition of the issue  is little more than a number…

Bitty BallNelson Quarries 9, Hammerson 4Hammerson1B – Thomas Cash, Broc Ivy, Jayden Beene, Hunter Doolittle, Broden Emerson 2, Asher Arnold. 2B – Ivy.Nelson Quarries1B – Brody Maley 2, Braxtyn Rutherford 3, Reed Clift 2, LaDayvion…

This is the first installment of a six-part series of columns that will look ahead to the upcoming year of high school sports for our six area schools. Up first is the Southern Coffey County…

Blaine King, front, and Carson Peters monitor results of adding baking soda to vinegar during an Allen Kids’ College physical science class conducted by Paul Miller at Allen Community College.

Allen County commissioners will gauge public interest in evening meetings, also whether having some of those sessions on the road would find favor.A constituent proposed evening meetings to give the public better opportunities to hear…

The circumstances surrounding the March 2016 killing of Iolan Shawn Cook were revealed in frequently graphic testimony Tuesday in an Allen County courtroom.A series of witnesses spoke about the events leading up to, during and…

Forty-seven states have been affected by a recent outbreak of salmonella infections linked to live poultry. Reports of outbreaks invoving several types of the disease began January 4. By mid-May 71 people had been hospitalized…

HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt youth softball team has only had one loss this season going into Monday’s doubleheader against Neodesha. But that loss had come at the hands of the Streaks, so Brad Piley’s squad…

Iola Indians Single-A coach Brian Dillow has maintained that he wants his team to build to the point where it is playing  its best baseball when the Zone Tournament begins.With the tournament less than a…

HUMBOLDT — By the time the Post 15 Indians finished up their sweep  over Yates Center on Monday night in Humboldt, Iola first baseman Ethan Sigg was manning the third-base coach’s box and Indians’ super-fan…