Fielding issues on the baseball diamond plagued Marmaton Valley High in a pair of losses Monday. The Wildcats dropped 19-3 and 9-5 decisions to Uniontown High. “We really have to clean up the fielding if…

The SEK Sluggers, a local traveling youth softball team, teamed with Modern Woodmen of America, a non-profit life insurance organization, to benefit the Iola Recreation Department. The Sluggers raised $1,652.30 by working concessions at a…

GARNETT — Iola High’s Michael Wilson got in some extra pole vault work Thursday, and wound up matching a personal record in the process. Wilson won the pole vault at Thursday’s Anderson County Invitational by…

Allen Community College’s baseball team didn’t meet all of its goals over the weekend.“We were hoping to win at least two out of these four” against Fort Scott, head coach Val McLean said. “That didn’t…

Computerized tomography (CT) diagnoses took a giant leap forward when the Allen County Regional Hospital opened Dec. 10.Acquisition of a new 64-slice CT scanner was a big technological advance for the hospital and of substantial…

The Kansas Food Bank of Wichita pays close attention to communities across the state. If a community seems to be underserved in food resources, the Kansas Food Bank steps in. On May 2 the bank…

Okah Roberts, rural Savonburg, passed away Sunday, April 20, 2014, at Diversicare in Chanute.Okah was born Aug. 1, 1923, to Karl and Martha Trieda Hauser rural Humboldt. Okah attended grade school at the Central Avenue…

Mae Truster, 95, Iola, passed away Friday, April 18, 2014, at Windsor Place in Iola, surrounded by her family.Mae was born Jan. 1, 1919, in Iola, the daughter of George Beaty and Myrtle (Conover) Beaty.…

PITTSBURG — The ANW Special Education Cooperative team was in Pittsburg Wednesday to compete in the Area Track and Field Competition. ANW students competing: Judy Branstetter, Iola, fourth in running long jump and second in…

EMPORIA — Crest Middle School athletes picked up five gold medals Wednesday as part of the Neosho Rapids Invitational, hosted by Emporia State University. On the boys’ side, Gage Adams won the shot put with…