OSWEGO — Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats outlasted host Oswego High’s Indians 19-12 in the first game Thursday just kept things going for a 16-5 run-rule win in the second contest.The wins puts Marmaton Valley at…

Allen County Community College’s golf team battled only one team but also windy conditions to capture its third straight Region VI, Division II golf championship.Led by individual champion Rob Carlson, the Red Devils captured the…

High school and middle school students will be on the hunt for pet items Monday afternoon.The students, part of the Every Monday Matters SAFE BASE club, will partake in a scavenger hunt to collect items…

SAFE BASE will run a three week K-8th grade summer program in June. Parents/guardians can enroll their student(s) all three weeks of the program or any single week. There will be no cost for students…

The past several years Ken Hunt drove 55 miles each day from his home in a suburb of Lansing, Mich., to work at a General Motors facility, while wife Carla drove 40 miles in the…

Madison Ford and Baley LaHaye will each receive two diplomas next weekend.Saturday’s graduation will award them degrees from Allen County Community College; Sunday’s ceremonies will be as graduates from Iola High School.The two girls are…

William (Billy) and Doris Roe, LaHarpe, will celebrate their 7Oth wedding anniversary at a family gathering.Billy Roe and Doris Spencer were married May 19, 1940, at the home of the bride’s parents northeast of Iola.…

Danny and Marta Riebel, Iola, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Sarah Ellen Riebel, to Eric Lee Irvin, Farmington Mo., son of Samantha McWay, O’Fallen, Mo., and Vincent Crump, Farmington.The bride-elect is…

Gail L. Cantrell, 89, of Yates Center died Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at her home.Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Gazebo in Yates Center Cemetery. Memorials to Yates Center Senior Center…

As a young boy, all of 14, I  lost my mother on the second Sunday of May, Mother’s Day, in 1972.On that afternoon I had told my mother how much I loved her, just moments…