Dear Editor,Good news. Councilmen Steve French and Ken Rowe, who represent Ward 4 of Iola, are holding a public forum at Iola Middle School this Thursday evening. Councilpersons reaching out to the citizens of each…

When the debt ceiling was raised at the end of July, the bill also created a bipartisan committee charged with coming up with a blueprint to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion by Nov. 23…

Home or away, it was the same outcome for Crest Middle School’s Lancers. They opened the basketball season with victories last week.The Lancers began with a 47-23 win over Southern Coffey County Middle School at…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Mackenzie Tynon proved to be too much for Uniontown Junior High to handle Monday.Tynon scored 14 of her game-high 18 points in the first half as the Wildcat girls…

COFFEYVILLE — Iola Middle School’s seventh-grade girls broke open a close game Monday by outscoring their hosts from Coffeyville 20-8 over the second and third quarters to win 37-18.The eighth-grade squad struggled offensively in a…

CHANUTE — Allen County Community College’s women came up on the short end of a pair of contests over the weekend, but should benefit from playing competitive games against a pair of highly regarded opponents,…

Military personnel and veterans have proudly given their time and lives to preserve the inalienable rights of the citizens of the United States, Jeff Kluever, director of the Allen County Historical Society told fourth-graders at…

LaHARPE — Starting at 8 a.m. Thursday 13 big roasters will be filled with chili, chicken and noodles and vegetable soup. The soups are part of fundraising efforts to go toward repair of the roof…

The Kan-ed initiative, which provides Internet access and research tools to Kansas schools, libraries and hospitals, is on the chopping block and local officials have mixed feelings about the impact a cut would have on…

Two area residents were arrested Monday in connection with a burglary of dozens of firearms from West Side Bait Shop in Iola.The Allen County Sheriff’s Department announced this morning in a press release that Joshua…