The Humboldt Lions Club will offer its annual fireworks display on Wednesday, July 3, at the golf course.  The event kicks off at 6 p.m. with a display of RC model airplanes. The Mike Rickner…

Four Allen County businesses received Backing Small Businesses grants up to $10,000 each.  They were among seven small businesses in Kansas and 500 across the country to receive the grants, which were administered by American…

Crews with the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) perform maintenance on US 54 Highway Thursday morning in Gas. According to Priscilla Petersen, KDOT Public Affairs, the work includes concrete stitching. “The crews are filling cracks…

A quest to learn about local healthcare needs brought together about two dozen Allen County residents with representatives of the Kansas Health Institute Tuesday evening at the community building in Riverside Park.  KHI is a…

The estimated costs of new consoles for county dispatch came in $34,000 under the proposed budget request of $100,000. Chelsie Decker, 911 Director, presented the Allen County Commission with estimates from three different companies to…

Killing two birds with one stone. This was the idea behind Mammoth Sports Construction’s presentation at Monday evening’s joint meeting of the Iola City Council and school board.  Riverside Park poses flooding issues for the…

Iola school board members agreed to take the next step to improve Riverside Park and pay half the cost of a design plan for flood mitigation, but expressed concern about the total cost of the…

Fun and games kept festival-goers of all ages occupied in the summer heat Saturday with the annual LaHarpe Days celebration.

Ham radio enthusiasts gathered at Riverside Park Saturday for their annual Field Day.  It’s an opportunity for ham radio operators to practice skills for responding to an emergency and make contact with stations across the…

It could have been worse, as in longer or later in the day.  Even so, the late-morning power outage in Iola and nearby areas had residents anxious about how long it would last. Turns out,…