Whether or not the $300,000 sequestered in Allen County’s 2018 budget will be sufficient to plan, build and outfit new ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran, the commissioners’ zeal to do so is refreshing.Commissioner Jerry…

Catherine L. Feese, 66, Kincaid, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.She was born on Sept. 14, 1950, in Garnett, the daughter of Howard and Marjorie (Hetzel) Jones.Catherine married…

Eugene Edward “Gene” Clounch, Jr., 78, Iola, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 at Windsor Place in Iola.Gene was born March 28, 1939, in Iola to Eugene Edward and Gladys June (Boyd) Clounch. He…

Friends and family streamed into Donna Houser’s home Saturday afternoon to help her celebrate her 80th birthday. Pictured with Donna, left, was Jamie Webb, a close friend from Donna’s teenage years in El Dorado. Webb…

A dreary, rainy morning made for pristine racing conditions for the Allen County Fair Mud Run at the Wide Open Speed Park south of Iola. At top, Speed Hoepker barrels through the mud aboard an…

Somewhere in Allen County there may be a truck big enough to carry all the fish and game I’ve carried home from my outdoor adventures of the last seven decades. Deer alone, at better than…

Catherine L. Feese, 66, Kincaid, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. She was born on Sept. 14, 1950, in Garnett, the daughter of Howard and Marjorie (Hetzel) Jones.…

It’s impressive in a small town like Humboldt, Kansas, where the pinnacle institutions of higher education are thought to be K-State and KU, to find a high-schooler whose horizons are a great deal broader, and…

Iola’s own Gary Hawk is lending a hand to this year’s Farm-City Days celebration. Hawk, whose art has drawn global acclaim for more than half a century, allowed use of one of his paintings for…

Shannon Bogle squirmed — mentally if not physically — when Mike Myer declared: “Don’t look directly at the sun” early the afternoon of Aug. 21 when 95 percent coverage of its eclipse may be seen…