Today marks the last day in The Register’s series on local restaurants. Stories told by the owners paint an interesting picture of what local businesses struggle with on a day-to-day basis. Throughout the area, the…

Iola Community Theatre members are brushing off the cobwebs and getting their voices ready for the upcoming performance “Songs of Inspiration.”The program is a mix of religious and patriotic music. The musical is directed by…

Dan Foust is an 11-year-old fifth-grader at Jefferson School who has taken to heart civic lessons.He learned that participation is what makes democracy work — if he speaks, he will be heard.Wednesday morning young Foust…

Four area schools were a part of Tuesday’s Yates Center Invitational Track meet hosted by Yates Center High School. Among the participants were, clockwise from upper left, Humboldt High’s Shayli Ellis in the long jump;…

HUMBOLDT — While Trey Johnson has earned plenty of accolades on the football field and basketball court, his passion lies in the rodeo arena.That’s why it wasn’t a hard decision for Johnson to continue his…

Marshall Barnhart’s business has grown over the past four years, just not in the way he intended it to.“My business used to be triple of what it is now,” Barnhart said. He has the recession…

Advocates for and against the legalization of gay marriage have sounded off, letting opinions fly in reaction to this week’s poll question of whether gay marriage should be legalized.Over the past week, the question garnered…

District Judge David Rogers ruled March 22 that three attorneys provided effective defense for Rory Foster.Foster, 32, was convicted of first-degree murder, rape and other charges here in 2008 in the death of Brianna Hardrick,…

Ken and Jim Gilpin were on hand Tuesday night to give a gift of $100,000 from the estate of their parents, Howard and Helen Gilpin, to the new Allen County Regional Hospital. The boardroom at…

A plan for merger of Allen County and Iola and ambulance services will be made public April 29 at a sub-committee meeting of the three county commissioners and two representatives of the Iola council.Agreement was…