The top three in each school advance to the Allen County Spelling Bee at 1 p.m. Friday at the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. The fourth-place finishers will serve as alternate…

Humboldt’s Mike Myer was in the midst of photographing an unusual confluence of celestial objects — namely the Moon and Jupiter, as seen above, shortly after dusk Wednesday when a passing jet, with its contrails…

Jack and Jeanne Mc-Karnin of Gas celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary today. They were married in Reno, Nevada in February 1963. Happy Diamond Anniversary, Meme and Papa! Your family sends all our love.

The Allen Community College Music Department will offer a concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 2, at the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. The theme for the event is “Music To…

INDEPENDENCE — Iola High School’s Forensics team members narrowly missed out on a sweepstakes championship Saturday. The Iola actors and speakers took second place at the Independence Invitational. Iola finished four points behind meet champion…

First Presbyterian Church hosted the first of the community Lenten breakfasts Wednesday morning. Hosts for the next six weeks are: First Christian Church, March 1; Calvary Methodist Church, March 8; no church has signed up…

Have you noticed the two bright “stars” in the western skies this month?  They are not stars, rather they are the planets Jupiter and Venus.  Venus is the brighter of the two and Jupiter is…

HUMBOLDT — The next meeting of the Sunflower Quilters’ Guild is set for Mondy morning at the Humboldt United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 806 N. Ninth.  The board meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m.,…

Results follow. Oral Interpretation of Prose: Alyssa Williams, first, Cole Moyer, second, Kendall Glaze, fourth.  Oral Interpretation of Poetry: Shaun McLaughlin, fourth Humorous Solo Acting: Macie Hoag, second, Cole Moyer, fourth. Serious Solo Acting: Macie…

Students with Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy were in St. Louis Jan. 26-29 for the Deprese Dance Convention. The studio received an “eminence award” for the students’ hard work and technique. The dancers earned one diamond,…