Auxiliary service employees of Allen Community College are the target of a new policy concerning pay raises. Currently raises are 2 percent. President John Masterson spoke to ACC Trustees Tuesday about implementing a new procedure…

If plans continue on track, wind turbines in northeast Allen County will be generating electricity by October 2018. Allen County, however, will not reap a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) that has been bandied…

Economic development will become a priority for Allen County commissioners.Tuesday they voted unanimously to form an economic development board with Chuck Apt, an Iola attorney, as its chairman. From there, a committee of six will…

She was barely into her freshman year, when Riley Murry’s dream of maintaining all A’s suddenly looked in jeopardy.She had enrolled in geometry and found her nine-week grade at a precarious 89 percent — a…

A gaggle of hypersensitive folks in Anderson County who thought permitting a wind farm in their neck of the woods would ruin its pristine appearance got their wish. Calpine, a Houston energy company, has said…

HUMBOLDT — Makaylah McCall, Tilar Wells and Kira McReynolds have never known anything but winning the Tri-Valley League softball title and they weren’t going to let that end this year.The Cubs wrapped up their fourth-straight…

MOUND CITY — Marmaton Valley has been struggling late in the season, skidding to a 1-9 record in Three Rivers League play. Unfortunately, things did not improve for the Wildcats on Monday when faced Jayhawk-Linn…

The Humboldt boys track and field team relied on strong performances from its throwers to win the Iola Junior Varsity Invitational on Monday at Riverside Park.The Cubs fielded three athletes to each win in the…

HUMBOLDT — Seniors Daylon Splane and Rayce Hoepker have been the glue to the Humboldt Cubs baseball team all season and fittingly enough, it was the two senior aces that locked down the Cubs’ second-straight…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt school board members voted unanimously Monday to eliminate May 22  from the school calendar this year. The district has already met the state attendance requirement, Superintendent Kay Lewis said.Although students will not…