Month: February 2019

INDIANAPOLIS — Despite missing all but three games in the 2018 season, Chiefs safety Eric Berry isn’t having surgery on the sore heel that kept him sidelined for most of the year. Asked about the…

HUTCHINSON — The Allen Red Devil men and women wrapped up their season on Wednesday when both teams fell in the opening round of the Region VI tournament to Hutchinson.  The men lost 98-88 and…

INDEPENDENCE — The Iola boys’ season came to an end Wednesday night on the road versus a talented Independence team that was having a pretty good shooting night.  In their 64-41 loss, the Mustangs were…

Are there studies of how the proposed elementary school would be located in relation to where most of our students live? Would it be centrally located? -Mark Peters, Iola Submitted 02/28/19

In 34 days, USD 257 voters will head to the polls to decide whether to approve construction of a new elementary school, most likely just off Kentucky Street in East Iola. That leads to a…

YATES CENTER — It was not the first time this season that Humboldt head coach Aubrey Jones needed to pull her team aside for a come-to-Jesus moment. The kind where no words were minced and…

Months of discussion and debate came to a head Tuesday morning when the Allen County commission followed its planning board’s recommendation and denied Mid-States Materials and landowner David Gant a permit to install a rock…

Hospital trustees decided Tuesday night not to invite Hospital Corporation of America, the company that currently manages the hospital, to present its version as to what a lease agreement with the hospital might look like.…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Unified Republicans blocked an attempt Tuesday by the Kansas Senate’s top Democrat to speed up work on education funding issues and advance Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s plan for increasing spending on…

Ross D. Umholtz, 92, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, in Iola.  He was born May 16, 1926, in Newton, to Harry and Louise (Deschner) Umholtz.  He served in the Army Air Corps, 1950-1952. He married…