Dr. Lyvier Leffler, president of Allen Community College, will serve as its interim athletic director during a search to replace Doug Desmarteau, whose tenure with the college has ended. A national search for the position…

The Iola High School Mustangs will not be the first football team run onto the newly turfed Municipal Stadium field next week. Instead, that honor will go to the Iola Middle School Mustangs, who host…

LE ROY — The Southern Coffey County Titans will forgo a jamboree and instead focus on a tough opening week opponent in the Marais des Cygnes Valley Trojans. Despite falling to the Trojans 54-6 last…

Shop Thrifty, the used clothing store of the Iola Senior Center, donated $500 to the yet-to-be-formed Friends of the Lehigh Portland State Park Thursday.  

YATES CENTER — Lesli Banner can only laugh some days. When she tells folks she and Johnny Atkin IV own Lanes at Light Hardware — the community’s bowling alley — she invariably gets one of…

The heat of a Wisconsin summer was no match for 10-year-old Jaxen Birk and his young Hereford, Tootsie. The Gridley fifth-grader stepped into the show ring at the VitaFerm Junior National Hereford Expo in July…

Roxanna “Roxie” Caudell Luttrell, 68, of Iola,  died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. Roxanna was born April 14, 1958, in Fredonia, to J.T. and Lois Caudell. She is survived by her daughters, Erica Badders of Iola…

The children of Larry and Judy (Steele) Hoepker, Humboldt, Kansas, happily announce their parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. They were married in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 31, 1966. They have been blessed with two children,…

Earl Dean Carlson, age 92, Elsmore, Kansas, died Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at Moran Manor in Moran, Kansas. He was born Oct. 3, 1933, on the family farm west of Elsmore, the son of Oscar…

Customers were treated to giveaways and discounts while they visited with a number of vendors and representatives Friday at The Feedlot’s store expo Friday.