It’s difficult to tell which is more successful for Party Girls — its catering services or the retail of its merchandise. “We couldn’t run one without the other,” said Stacie Peters, manager of the storefront,…

Allen County crews are poised to respond if and when snow blankets the area. Bill King, director of Public Works, told county commissioners Tuesday his crew had “plenty of salt and pea rock mixed up…

  Larry Macha is in awe of his wife, Virginia.  “I don’t know where she gets her energy,” he says of that boundless vitality that like a laser, hyper-focuses her on the task at hand.…

J. Roger Beatty, 93, died Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, at Gardens of Western Reserve in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He was born in Iola. He graduated from Kansas State University with a physics degree and moved…

Willis Henderson, 98, of Garnett, brother of Rollin Henderson of Kincaid, died Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, at Anderson County Hospital in Garnett. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church…

Wanda Lee Grizzle, 79, of Chanute died Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. She was born March 19, 1931, on a farm southwest of Iola, to Thomas Henry and…

PARSONS — In their next to last competition of the season, Iola Middle School’s wrestlers claimed 13 medals for top-three places in 17 weight brackets Tuesday at Parsons. “We came out and wrestled better than…

Many in the audience at the Landon Lecture at K-State were proud to welcome Kathleen Sebelius to the podium Monday. It isn’t often that a Kansan — even an adopted one — rises so high…