When weighing a potential candidacy for Allen Community Board of Trustees, Alana Cloutier considered the college’s name. “It’s Allen Community College, not Iola Community College. And when I learned that no one on the board…

Fred Gardner made it a point during the fall campaign to vow to bring conservative values to Topeka, but without the partisan rancor that has run amok in today’s political discord. Voters in the newly…

Dear editor, Rural Kansas needs the kind of representation Alana Cloutier can give us. She and her husband Paul moved to Humboldt several years ago to help with A Bolder Humboldt, a rural economic revitalization…

Dear editor, I am writing in support of Democrat Alana Cloutier for Kansas 9th District House seat. Alana is a relative newcomer to Humboldt but she and her husband, Paul, have jumped into the community…

Change is afoot for Allen County. For the first time in a decade, local voters  — part of the newly reformed Ninth Kansas House District — will have someone new representing Allen County in Topeka…

As the second-largest town in Allen County, Humboldt is working hard to prove to its big sister that smaller is better. Admittedly, this is the perspective of an Iolan who is envious of Humboldt’s revitalized…

Alana Cloutier remembers her first voting experience. She accompanied her father to a voting booth in 1984, when she was just a child. He jokingly told the poll workers she was there to vote for…

Alana Cloutier of Humboldt filed Monday to represent the 9th District in the Kansas House of Representatives. As the only Democrat in the race, she will face the winner of the Aug. 4 Republican primary…