The USD 257 Board of Education voted on Monday to accept the resignation, effective immediately, of longtime board member Darrel Catron. Catron had been frequently absent from the district’s bi-monthly meetings during the months leading…

To borrow a line from the movie “Mrs. Doubtfire,” two highway transports were the targets of drive-by “fruitings” Sunday night.The first occurred as a semi drove under the overpass of U.S. 169 that carries the…

Iola City Council members approved a 2018 budget that will increase property taxes by 8 percent at their meeting Tuesday night.The additional 3.581 mills will mean the owner of a $100,000 home would pay an…

Food service was expanded throughout the summer of 2017 across USD 257. Kathy Koehn, the district’s food coordinator, was the primary force behind the change. Koehn was recognized with the Child Nutrition & Wellness Kansans…

White supremacists — those who believe their pale skin engenders special privilege — incited riots over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va. Among the ranks in Friday night’s “Unite the Right” march were Ku Klux Klan…

JUNE 29, 1870 — E.G. Dalson, in jail on charges of murder … was taken from jail at midnight by a mob and hanged. Dalson had confessed to the unplanned murder of an adopted son…

CHANUTE — Ed Born gave the crank a couple of twists to put a little fuel into the one-cylinder engine sitting at the front of his 76-year-old Case stationary baler.Nothing. He tried again. And again.…

Andrew and Anna Toland are pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Charlotte Leslie, on July 11, 2017, in Cody, Wyo.  Charlotte weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 20½ inches long.  Maternal grandparents…

For many years I had a strong yearning to return to college and immerse myself again in an academic atmosphere. I wasn’t sure what has tempered the urge to the point that it no longer…

Sheri Middleton sat at home during Christmas break in 2015 and waited. The Humboldt native had just finished a year and a half at Fort Scott Community College where she played for the Greyhound volleyball…