Month: September 2011

YATES CENTER — Humboldt Middle School’s volleyball team went 1-2 in matches Thursday at Yates Center.The A-team lost 25-15, 25-14. Hylie Yost served four points for Humboldt while Hannah Hulett and Jessica Lytle each had…

PARSONS — On a great fall day, Uniontown High’s Eagles and Yates Center High Wildcats competed in the Parsons High Invitational girls’ golf tournament Monday.The Eagles ended up in sixth place, one stroke ahead of…

COFFEYVILLE — Iola Soccer Club’s 14-and-under team beat Coffeyville 10-0 in SEK League (a recreactional soccer league) play on Sunday.Devon Heffurth scored four goals for Iola and Calob Mock added three. Scoring one goal each…

PARSONS — Iola High’s junior varsity tennis players competed in a meet Monday hosted by Parsons High School.In No. 1 singles, Emmalee Seabolt lost to Halei Matthews of Independence 6-0 and to Zoe McCollam of…

Humboldt High’s Lady Cubs went 1-1 in Tuesday’s volleyball action. They beat Leon-Bluestem 25-21, 26-24 then lost 25-10, 25-9 to Eureka.“The Bluestem win was a good one for us. We were down by quite a…

YATES CENTER — Getting a little boost as they head into Southeast Kansas League play, Iola High’s Fillies notched two victories Tuesday.The Fillies improved to 6-12 overall with wins over host Yates Center High’s Wildcats…

Only two area runners competed in the varsity girls’ race Tuesday at the annual Iola High Doc Stiles Invitational cross country meet. Both captured individual medals.Iola High senior Sydney Owens earned the ninth-place medal. She…

A pair of protesters were in Iola Tuesday morning to protest what they believe is the state’s zeal to pull children from homes in order to make money.Don and Phyllis Porter, who live in Linn…

In his caricature of Buster Keaton, artist Stephen Gilpin accentuated the comic’s pitifully sad eyes and prominent nose while playing down his mouth and chin.“Whenever you exaggerate some features, you take away from others,” he…

No Kansas couple contributed more to modern film than Chanute native Osa Johnson and her husband Martin. That’s what Jacquelyn Borgeson, head curator at the Osa and Martin Johnson Safari Museum, Chanute, will convey to…