Crest High School students rolled up to prom Saturday in the most unusual and creative ways possible: fire engine, boat, all-terrain vehicles, a part bus, a balloon-filled van, and more. Read about the visit from…

Colony Christian Church’s men’s group, Men on Fire, and the Anderson County chapter of the Kansas Livestock Association provided a meal for Crest prom attendees. The Crest students were not able to raise money for…

“Cones are a pretty tricky thing.” So says IHS senior/Iola Register intern Grace Garner, who just started her first paid job at the Iola Dairy Queen. Garner has been hard at it after school for…

The senior boys at Crest High School like to play pranks. Usually, that means hiding something from their classmates. Especially water bottles. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, they made a plan to trick this reporter…

At Marmaton Valley High School this year, girls rule. And boys … well, they come and go. The 12-member senior class this year is entirely girls, after a couple of boys left before the start…

Iola High School celebrated the best and brightest of its Class of 2021 Wednesday, with its annual Senior Awards Night celebration. Students were recognized for their work inside and outside the classroom, which has netted…

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” Not only is that a line from the musical “Lucky Stiff,” it’s a good mantra for the Allen Community Theatre Department this year. The students will deliver their…

Housing was the talk of the town in Allen County yesterday. Specifically, how to get more.  In the morning, Atlas Community Studios and McClure Company hosted an online “visioning session” to collect data on housing…

Marmaton Valley isn’t happy about the distribution of recent wind farm payments to schools. Kim Ensminger, USD 256 superintendent, along with board member Bob Rhodes, shared their concerns with commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting. “I’m expressing…

Besides the danger of contracting COVID-19 itself, the pandemic is revealing other ways health is being negatively affected in Southeast Kansas.  Social isolation, the lack of transportation, housing and access to food make it difficult…