Allen County Country Club hosted a couples golf tournament Sunday, with 54 competing t.Nancy Lassman and Rick Henry won in a scorecard playoff over Paula Sutherland and Richard Boyd. Third went to Phyllis and Ken…

FORT SCOTT — Yates Center High’s MaKayla Jones earned a medal in her first junior varsity golf tournament of the season.Jones shot a 76 to earn a 10th-place medal at a tournament hosted by Uniontown…

Above, Allen County Youth Tackle League player Karson Sigg, left, tries to corral Ryker Curry in a scrimmage Thursday evening at Riverside Park. At right, Iola High’s Nate Evans, foreground, is sandwiched between Mustang defenders…

CHANUTE — With the thermostat set on “bake,” Iola High’s tennis team opened the 2013 season Thursday afternoon.Each of the Fillies’ entries — singles players Megan Smith and Katie Lieurance and doubles teams of Alexis…

EL DORADO — In a match filled with wild momentum swings, Allen Community College’s volleyball team never could get over the proverbial hump Wednesday.The Red Devils battled host Butler toe to toe through the first…

Lupe M. Perez, 79, Humboldt, died Aug. 27, 2013, at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.He was born in Chanute on Dec. 12, 1933, to Felix and Pauline (Gutierrez) Perez. The family moved to…

COLONY — Claudette and Gene Anderson are quiet, unassuming folk who don’t think they make much of a story. “You can come by,” Gene said. “But we don’t have much to say.” The elderly couple…

There is a new teacher joining the business department at Iola High School this year but she is a familiar face to many. Laura Schinstock, the new business teacher, has taught at the high school…

MORAN — Some students spend their summers at camp or working. Payton Wilson spent his in Japan.Wilson, a Marmaton Valley High School junior, spent six weeks with a Japanese host family in Tokyo as one…

Louis S. Jackson Jr. (Bob), 87, stepped into eternity on Aug. 9, 2013. He was born in Perris, Calif. on Dec. 5, 1925, the son of Louis S. and Olga Marie (Smith) Jackson, Sr.He joined…