Jane Works, Flo Hume, Ruby Owens and Susan Pulliam, residents of Fountain Villa, recently shared their experiences of growing up during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression Era.Students Jonathan Miller, Dylan Newland, Blake Haar, Jeremy…

Lt. Col. Shawn Manley, commander of the National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion, will deliver the keynote address at Saturday’s Veterans Day celebration in Iola.Manley has been a member of the 891st since 1989. He was…

Any attempt to put Scooter’s Friday night band, Dumptruck Butterlips, in any particular genre is as futile as an attempt to figure out the meaning of the “odd” name. That is, of course, if Mustard,…

“The Outsiders” isn’t a play typically found on small-town high school stages.That Richard Spencer, director and mentor for Iola High drama students, picked the intense coming-of-age study of teenagers in the 1960s is no surprise.…

Gov. Sam Brownback will be in Iola next week for a brainstorming session about spurring economic development in southeast Kansas.The Nov. 17 event, “Together We Succeed: Southeast Kansas Economic Summit,” is sponsored by the 17-county…

E.E. “Gene” Sloan of Humboldt, whose death on Monday, visitation, funeral services and memorials were reported in Tuesday’s Register, was born July 16, 1920, in Vincentville in Allen County, to James Austin and Nora Ellen…

Fagan, one of the villains in that wonderful musical, “Oliver,” facing discovery and punishment, decides to flee in a song titled, “Reviewing the Situation.”His counterparts in today’s world are the politicians who created the pension…

For a 10-minute stretch in the second half, Allen County Community College’s men traded leads like they were baseball cards on the basketball court with Hutchinson Community College.But ill-timed turnovers haunted the Red Devils from…

Iola Middle School wrestlers picked up a number of wins on the mat Tuesday while competing in the 2011 IMS Wrestling Classic. Three Iolans took home first place in their respective brackets.Nathaniel Evans was a…

Allen County will have a newer secondary crusher in its quarry southeast of LaHarpe within a few days.Commissioners gave Bill King, director of Public Works, the go-ahead to pay $125,000 for a 10-year-old unit from…