PITTSBURG — Allen County Kids Wrestling Club has four wrestlers qualified for the 2012 Kansas Kids District 1 Championships this coming weekend. Last Saturday at the District 1, South sub-district tournament held at Pittsburg State’s…

It was happenstance, said Beckye Parker and Roger Carswell, that each had the wherewithal to pass on soup recipes at Iola Public Library’s first cooking class for adults. When Parker decided a year ago to…

Friday night was tailor-made to celebrate the positive change today’s younger generations are making in rural communities such as Iola.  Guest speakers at the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner were 30-somethings Erika Nelson…

LAWRENCE — Texas Congressman Ron Paul can’t seem to turn enthusiasm into wins. Regularly holding the loudest, most rambunctious rallies of any of the four remaining GOP presidential candidates, Paul, the only presidential hopeful without…

PARSONS — Republicans in southeast Kansas spoke loud and clear here Saturday — they want Rick Santorum to be the man who takes on President Barack Obama in November. Returns from southeast Kansas’ GOP 2012…

Geraldine “Geri” Lee (Boyd) Daly died Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Yates Center. She was 65. Services were at 10:30 a.m. today at Campbell Funeral Home in Yates Center with burial in the Yates Center…

Ken and Laura Heisler, Humboldt, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Alana Heisler, to Benton Walker, Waterloo, Iowa, son of John and Ginna Walker of Waterloo. The couple are planning a June…

Windsor Place of Iola was the recent setting for the wedding of Brady Drury and Michelle VanNice. The bride was escorted down the aisle by her father, Richard Manbeck.  Cheryl Manbeck, mother of the bride,…

Dear editor: To clarify the subject of the Meals on Wheels (congregate meals) at the Moran Senior/Community Center. At the present time we are simply trying to determine if there would be large enough number…

Another effort to push approval for the XL crude oil pipeline was squashed in the Senate by Democrats last Thursday, despite support from 11 Democrats. The amendment to the Senate transportation bill won a solid…