Kevin Lind isn’t your average 58-year-old.  As the recipient of a heart transplant he has faced down death and has worked ever since to become a competitive athlete. Lind, a 1975 Iola High grad who…

Both Humboldt High’s baseball and softball teams were able to keep their undefeated seasons going on Tuesday night as their varsity teams played host to Burlington. Their pitching carried them to their victories. The softball…

Allen Community College thumped Fort Scott Community College in a doubleheader on Tuesday in Fort Scott. The Red Devil softball squad won game one, 15-7. They managed 20 hits over seven innings against Fort Scott…

Iola High came away with a first-place finish in its junior varsity golf meet on Tuesday. Gentry Dougherty and Elijah Luedke led the team, tying for fifth place by each shooting a 52.  Jeremy Waldman…

In just its second meet of the season, the Iola Middle School golf team is already making great strides. The team hosted its home meet on Wednesday at Cedarbrook Golf Course and had the ability…

Iola Middle School swept the top-team places for each of the eighth-grade boys, eighth-grade girls, seventh-grade boys and seventh-grade girls division in their small-school track meet. The Ponies’ eighth-grade boys dominated the event. They earned…

Edith Louise (Gamble) Clements, 86, Humboldt, went to her eternal home on April 5, 2016, at Country Place Living in Chanute. Edith was born Aug. 7, 1929, in Lauden, Tenn., to Guy and Jessie (Sorensen)…

I f Martians ever do visit our blue planet, there’s a good case for taking them to Ray’s Metal Depot as evidence of what industrial man has been up to all these years. At an…

LA CYGNE — Every game is a learning opportunity for Chris Weide’s Iola High Fillies. The first-year softball coach challenged his group — which faced a 9-0 deficit in the bottom of the fourth —…

LA CYGNE — The Mustang baseball team has been desperately trying to shake off its early season offensive funk. On Tuesday night against Prairie View, the team finally began to show signs that their bats…