A campaign to pass a sales tax to support funding of a new hospital began in earnest Wednesday evening.About 50 volunteers met in the Mary Ellen Stadler Conference Room in Allen County Hospital’s basement to…

What has happened to the following programs and projects?The breakfast with Santa, tennis lessons, golf lessons, recreation sponsored horseshoe tournaments, the youth wrestling program, the baseball clinic with Allen County Community College players and the…

Hubris: n. Overbearing pride or presumption: Arrogance. The American Heritage Dictionary.A glaring Kansas example: University of Kansas athletic director, Lew Perkins.As reported in Monday’s Register, Perkins billed the KU athletic department more than $150,000 for…

It was Senior Day at Allen County Country Club. And it was Friday the 13th, which was a lucky day for two area golfers.George Levans hit a hole-in-one on the course’s No. 9 hole. He…

Register/Jocelyn Sheets Iola High’s volleyball players work on a drill during practice Tuesday afternoon. Tori Snavely gets to the ball in the middle to pass it to a teammate. The Fillies began practicing for the…

Iola voters will decide Nov. 2 the fate of a charter ordinance to put in place a five-member city commission in April.Petitions to force the referendum had more than enough valid signatures, Allen County Clerk…

Dr. Darrell Monfort encouraged Allen County commissioners to get out of the hospital business altogether and ask local investors to build a private hospital for the county.Monfort, a longtime Iola veterinarian, surmised an ample number…

Don George, a district fisheries biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday he’d like to help develop fishing opportunities on Elm Creek at the south edge of Iola.George…

Iris Lorraine Stanton, 87, of Carthage, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, following a sudden illness.  For several years she was traffic director for KIKS FM and KALN AM radio in Iola. She was born…

HUMBOLDT — Competition in USMTS (United States Modified Tour Series) was the big draw of the night and it didn’t disappoint race fans at Humboldt Speedway Friday.The excessive heat, temperatures climbing to triple digits, nor…