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Top brass Members of the Iola Municipal Band practice Monday night. Their first concert is at 8 p.m. Thursday at the bandstand on the Allen County Courthouse lawn.

There’s a reason presidential politics, at some point, turn to the Supreme Court. Former Secretary of State Kris Kobach, now running for a U.S. Senate seat, spoke about the High Court, the Constitution and a…

In northwestern Woodson County, just south of the German-Russian settlement known as Nikkeltown, lies a pasture. It looks like any other pasture, really, with dry, brittle grasses swaying slowly in the wind beneath a sprawling…

LAHARPE — LaHarpe’s City Hall, playground and other city facilities are once again open to the public. City officials announced Friday the areas are open once again amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors to City…

Following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the justice movements and protests generated thereby, the role of police in American society has increasingly come under scrutiny, even in small-town Kansas.…

HUMBOLDT — “Base Camp.”  In recreational terms, a base camp is where adventurers gather to prepare for an activity or recuperate afterward. It’s a staging area. A gathering spot. A home away from home. In…

An Allen County family is in quarantine after an asymptomatic individual tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday evening. The person who tested positive is in isolation and their family is in quarantine, according to a press…

U.S. Senate hopeful Kris Kobach will be in town this afternoon to discuss the U.S. Constitution at 2:30 p.m. at Bolling’s Meatery and Eatery, 415 W. Madison Ave. Kobach served as Kansas Secretary of State…

Humanity House founder Tracy Keagle learned a lot about cooking from her grandmother, Inez Brewington.  As a child, she spent many afternoons in her grandma’s kitchen in south Iola near Elm Creek and not far…

In step with the beginning of the summer term, Allen Community College trustees met Tuesday evening to take stock of a semester full of unprecedented changes that ACC has managed for the most part to…