LEBO—The 2011-2012 regular season didn’t end gracefully for Marmaton Valley High’s boys’ basketball team. The Wildcats got thumped on the road by Lebo High’s Wolves Tuesday night 68-32. Marmaton Valley takes a 7-13 record into…

Perfect softball weather was here for Allen County Community College’s home opener Tuesday. The Red Devils went 1-1 against Ottawa University’s junior varsity. Freshman pitcher Keelyn Bonar threw four scoreless innings after Ottawa took a…

FORT SCOTT — Iola High’s freshman boys and girls are competing in the Fort Scott High Freshman Basketball Tournament this week. On Monday, the Mustang freshmen lost 51-37 to Fort Scott. Kaden Macha scored 13…

ALTAMONT — Iola High’s Mustangs were caught in a bear trap Tuesday night. Labette County High’s Grizzlies never allowed the visiting Mustangs to get comfortable in their final Southeast Kansas League game in the LCHS…

ALTAMONT — Playing close games, but not getting the victories, has been a pattern for Iola High’s Fillies in Southeast Kansas League games. It’s their final run through the SEK. “I could tell our girls…

Iola Superintendent Brian Pekarek is in the preliminary stages of forming a long-range planning committee to research new facilities for the USD 257 school district. The school board authorized a committee in September and expressed…

City officials, health care providers and educators gathered Monday night in the Student Success Center at Allen County Community College to learn about the plight of people who never finished high school and about those…

His skepticism ebbed when he saw a demonstration of 911 response software, Allen County Commissioner Dick Works told colleagues Gary McIntosh and Rob Francis Tuesday morning. Angie Murphy, the county’s dispatch director, proposed purchasing software…

Allen County commissioners joined other local taxing entities in giving Iola Pharmacy an exception to provide it with property tax abatement for its facility at 1408 East St. Bill Walden, a partner in the pharmacy,…

A “brazen” attempt at stealing some metal from a box along the Prairie Spirit Trail route resulted in an arrest this morning in Iola. Police arrested Wesley Sinclair for suspicion of theft after he was…