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Ward Chapel AME Church — a part of the Iola community almost as long as it has existed — is no more. The church will host its final service with a simple affair July 20…

The Allen Community College Library has expanded its offerings — by hundreds of thousands.  The ACC library was recently welcomed as the 52nd member into the SEKnFind shared catalog by the Southeast Kansas Library System…

The Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center (SEKMHC) made its case to the Allen County Commission Tuesday morning, requesting $167,038 in funding for continued support of its growing network of mental health and substance abuse services.…

Paresthesia, a temporary nerve compression accompanied by numbness or tingling in a person’s extremities, is colloquially known as “your foot falling asleep.” The condition has led to a year of hell for Iolan Susie Jackman.…

A motorist lost control of his pickup Wednesday morning while northbound on State Street. The pickup left the roadway and crashed into the office building of the Regency Inn Motel. The condition of the driver,…

GAS — As Austin and Emily Sigg brainstormed about fundraisers for their newly formed Phoenix Foundation, one idea — fireworks sales — took shape rather quickly. The Siggs formed the non-profit organization after Austin recovered…

For almost 60 years, Marsha Burris’s extended family has held biennial reunions.   The reunions celebrate her mother, Lois Weseloh Burris’s, side of the family, the descendants of John William and Martha Weseloh whose homestead…

Braylee Burnett and her family received some good news this week. Burnett, who turns 18 Wednesday, was diagnosed 2½  years ago with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly produces antibodies…

Jenna Louk brings a bit more entrepreneurial experience to the business world than one might expect from a newly minted college graduate. Not many 21-year-olds have already been running their own business for nearly seven…

HUMBOLDT — One of Humboldt’s newest museums has quite a showpiece. A crowd of about 50 gathered Saturday at the Whitetails & Wildlife Museum for the reveal of a bronze sculpture of a whitetail deer…