Neosho County nominates clerk ERIE — Chastity Foreaker, deputy Neosho County clerk, was nominated to fill the clerk’s position last week by the county’s Republican committee. According to a report from The Chanute Tribune, the…

An overlooked warranty was a source of confusion during Tuesday morning’s Allen County Commission meeting, when commissioners met with Josh Heller and Zack Morrison of the Independence-based H&H Roofing and Restoration LLC, to discuss possible…

Wet, cold conditions created havoc on Allen County roads early Wednesday when a thin layer of moisture turned into ice on several local bridges and overpasses. Emergency crews surveyed the damage of a two-vehicle accident…

When someone walks into April Kroenke’s new photography studio, she hopes they’ll feel instantly at ease. “We want this space to feel like an extension of my home,” said Kroenke. She and husband Scott assumed…

“I’m growing worms,” Shawn Geffert chuckled as he thumbed through the soil on his acreage just north of Humboldt. The 42-year-old farmer has been awarded this year’s Kansas Bankers Association Soil Conservation Award. Looking at…

The phone hasn’t stopped ringing, even though Friday’s show at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center was sold out weeks ago. “I think I got six calls yesterday,” Mandy Moyer, Bowlus director, said Tuesday morning. “Tickets…

Rumor on campus said it’d been around 40 years since the last homecoming dance at Allen Community College. No one really knew when, exactly. Just that it’d fallen by the wayside, a distant memory of…

The opening of a new hardware store in Iola is just around the corner. According to Chris Socha, general manager of Waters Hardware stores, plans to open a new store in the shopping plaza on…

The first two weeks of Lyvier Leffler’s term as president of Allen Community College has been a whirlwind of introductions with faculty, staff and students. On Thursday evening, it was the community’s turn. A “meet…

Matt Troyer believes in second chances. Through hard work and determination, the 32-year-old from Burlington was granted one himself. “Less than two years ago I was sitting inside of a prison cell in Lansing Correctional…