At the end of last week, all of the area boys and girls basketball teams wrapped up their preseason tournaments. The Register covered Humboldt boys and girls finishing second in their home tournament and Yates…

The Iola boys basketball team will have to play Santa Fe Trail at least two more times before the season ends. But in the first match-up Saturday night, the Mustangs looked undaunted, winning the championship…

Elaine L. Green, 74, Moran, died Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. Her burial will take place at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Walnut Hill Cemetery in Kingman. Donations in her…

With Santa’s Toy Shop slated to open to the public once again Dec. 21 in downtown Iola, organizers have sounded another appeal for donations.The Toy Shop needs toys, batteries and lots of cookies, organizers announced…

Above, Mackenzie Sager offers her Christmas wishes to Santa Claus Saturday, after Sager and scores of other youngsters visited Santa’s temporary quarters on the southeast corner of the courthouse square in Iola. At left, Cindy…

Thomas E. “Tom” Cellers, Sr., 94, Iola, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, in Iola following a brief illness.Tom was born April 23, 1923, in Lebo, to Everett and Nola (Doherty) Cellers.He married Ethel Castle…

A Christmas letter to my friends who are poor: My Dear Ones,Please do not listen to this world. Please tell your children not to listen to this world.You are more valuable than the number of…

Anyone with a whit of propriety should reject Roy Moore in his bid come Tuesday to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate.Moore’s reported dalliances with six women when they were teenagers is unacceptable, plain and…

The fires ravaging Southern California are a testament “to always being ready to evacuate, and never assume you’ll be back,” said former Iolan Webb Mechling. Webb and his wife, former Iolan Dusti Nichols, and their…

Oral Victor “Vic” Finkenbinder, 70, Spring Hill, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 at his home. Vic was born Dec. 28, 1946, to Bryce and Virginia Giffin Finkenbinder in Gas. He married Vicki Riebe…