Month: October 2010

COLONY —  Crest High began its contest Friday evening, having honored its senior class in the team’s final home game of the 2010 regular season.The Lancers ended the night as Eight Man I, District 2…

UNIONTOWN — Uniontown High’s Eagles lost a heart-breaker Friday evening, giving up a late lead and ultimately any hope of advancing to the playoffs visiting West Franklin High.The Falcons erased a 21-7 halftime deficit, tying…

OLPE — Taking on yet another team ranked in the top four of Kansas Class 2A, Humboldt High’s Cubs fell hard 55-12 to host Olpe High’s Eagles Friday.“We were overmatched up front but the kids…

GARNETT — Iola High’s Mustangs allowed Anderson County High’s Bulldogs stake a 21-0 lead before climbing into Friday night’s Class 4A District 6 contest.The hole was too deep. The rain came.Iola trailed by nine, 41-32,…

When Travis Riley was a student at Iola High School, going to church wasn’t a priority.After his graduation in 1998 he was married and living in Muskogee, Okla., and by 2004 in the midst of…

GAS — Muscle cars — gleaming beauties of old-fashioned American horsepower — are a family affair for the McKarnins. At the forefront is Danny McKarnin, now 47, whose love of all things on four wheels…

High school sweethearts Jerry and Betty (Clarkson) Skidmore were married Oct. 22, 1950, in First Christian Church in Arcadia by the Rev. Vern Barker. The couple are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary today.Their honeymoon was…

Richard and Joyce Dye, LaHarpe, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Oct. 13.Richard Dye and Joyce Barnes were married Oct. 13, 1960, in Iola. The Rev. Baker performed the ceremony. Richard and Eileen Wells attended…

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Humboldt, was the 5 p.m. Oct. 9 setting for the wedding of Kayla Owens and Matt Westerman, Piqua. The Rev. David Meier performed the ceremony.The bride is the daughter of Tim…

Gordon Vaughn “Sam” Larson, 87, of Humboldt died Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Humboldt.He was born Sept. 13, 1923, in Chanute, to Harold and Ina (Vaughn) Larson. He grew up in…