Among thousands of spectators at Saturday’s Farm-City Days parade was Jaxon Birk, eight-month-old son of Ashton and Brandon Birk, upper left. Above, Zane Graham, 9, and Ethan Graham, 8, eagerly eye the ice cream at…

Isreal “Harry” Trigg, 96, Olathe, died at his home on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kincaid-Selma United Methodist Church, Kincaid, with burial at the Kincaid Cemetery.…

Anyone who says he has a high threshold for pain never got his toe caught between chain and sprocket on a bicycle. In the early 1950s I got a new bike for Christmas, a shiny…

If the sun is shining today, it will have a direct bearing on Craig and Denise Mentzer, farm marshals for this year’s Farm-City Days.  With the corn safely stored away, their last worry of the…

There was a time Donna Culver probably should have been considered as a farm marshal for the Farm-City Days celebration. Alas, Culver’s roots on a farm in rural Woodson County still remain, but she’s been…

A spring-like storm that hit without warning wreaked havoc in Humboldt Thursday night and drenched Iola with more than 4 inches of rain. Humboldt’s business district sustained heavy damage from gale-force winds and heavy rains.…

CHANUTE — Iola High’s tennis team wrapped up its season Friday at the Class 4A regionals. Junior Carley Cescon and freshman Allie Utley got the day off to a great start for Iola as they…

OSAWATOMIE — Friday’s 20-14 victory in Osawatomie represents another key development in the maturation of the Mustangs, according to their leader. “We have to learn how to win,” Iola coach Doug Kerr said. “We have…

EUREKA — Humboldt senior Joe Kline ran a personal-best with a 17:29.16 to finish as a runner-up at the Eureka Invitational on Tuesday.Humboldt’s top female runner was Padyne Durand with a 15th-place finish and a…

The Iola Mustangs football squad is coming off three straight defeats including last week’s gut-wrenching, near-comeback, Homecoming loss against Parsons.One of the only teams in the Pioneer League that is possibly more desperate to get…