Month: January 2013

This year will be the last D.A.R.E program. A new program will be put on next year. Officer Mike Ford will be receiving training on the new program over the summer. Daren the lion, above,…

David Toland, who will speak at Monday evening’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, had other ideas about where he’d be today when he graduated from Iola High in 1995.“I thought I’d be practicing law…

Allen Community College’s indoor track season will offer unprecedented depth, coach Vince DeGrado said.For the first time in recent memory, the men’s team is maxed out, with every available roster spot taken.“This men’s team is…

CHANUTE — The way Coach Andy Shaw figures it, Allen Community College’s men have been playing “just well enough to get ourselves beat.”Wednesday’s story followed a familiar pattern. Nagging scoring droughts, coupled with other “little…

CHANUTE — An extended cold spell to start the second half did in Allen Community College’s women Wednesday.Host Neosho County Community College outscored the Red Devils 12-1 to start the second half, turning a tie…

Gerald Keith Zink Sr., 77, Spring Hill, passed away Jan. 13, 2013, at Olathe Medical Center. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Bruce Funeral Home, 712 S. Webster, Spring Hill. Call…

Ivy Bell (Caudell) Audiss, 87, left this life Jan. 14, 2013, after a fall that occurred at her home. She died peacefully surrounded by family at Coffey County Hospital in Burlington. Ivy Bell Caudell was…

John Paul Hoggatt, 67, Iola, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.John was born June 1, 1945, in Independence, the son of Clyde John and Hazel Irene (Jones) Hoggatt. He graduated…

Shari Cooper, 51, Neosho Falls, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. She was born on Sept. 21, 1961, in Chanute, to Donna Rose and Don Briley. She was survived by her mother, Donna Rose;…

THE PRESIDENT’S re-election strengthens him. While he must always keep in mind how his decisions will affect the standing of the Democratic Party with the public, he is serving his last term and need not…