Month: October 2010
Voters will decide Nov. 2 whether to increase a countywide sales tax by 1⁄4 of a cent to go toward a new Allen County Hospital.Members of the Allen County Healthcare Committee address questions about the…
On Nov. 2, I plan to vote YES to build a new hospital. My vote will not just be for a building. My vote will be for stronger local health care, for Allen County and…
The best thing about living in a small town is its innate sense of familiarity.We’re all neighbors — practically kin.So people feel free to speak their minds.Such was the case earlier this week when a…
Allen County Community College’s women and men lost on their home soccer field Thursday afternoon.Barton County Community College’s women shut out the Red Devil women 6-0. Chelsea Reynolds posted a 20-save day in goal for…
BURLINGTON — Paul Stockebrand and Sam Aguirre, Yates Center High cross country runners, set goals for themselves going into the dual Burlington High Invitational/Tri-Valley League races Thursday.They both met their goals.“Medals have been kinda scarce…
With a partially blocked punt setting them up in Coffeyville territory late in the third quarter, it appeared Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade Ponies were on their way to grabbing the lead back Thursday night.The drive…
There was good and bad on the volleyball court Thursday at Iola High School.The good — Iola High’s Fillies celebrated their senior players, they played solid volleyball three out of four sets.The bad — they…
PARSONS — Iola High freshman Jeremy Spears won the Southeast Kansas League junior varsity boys’ race at Thursday’scross country meet at Big Hill Reservoir.Spears ran the 5K race in 20 minutes, 51 seconds. Michael Wilson…
PARSONS — Iola High’s Mustangs run well at Big Hill Reservoir. Roman Yocham runs well in the Southeast Kansas League cross country meet.Going into Thursday’s 2010 SEK meet hosted by Parsons at Big Hill, Yocham…
There is no age that is too old to work through the “something missing in my life” syndrome.Ask Carol Larson, who at age 53, ran her first marathon Sunday. It was not out of a…
