Month: March 2018

While many area students spent their spring break relaxing or hanging out with friends and family, five teenagers from Hope Chapel in Moran spent the week finishing drywall: Mixing mud, applying tape to Sheetrock and…

A new and improved student activities center at Allen Community College broke ground Wednesday with a goal to open early next year. ACC officials, including board of trustees members, gathered with project architects and Lloyd…

Arrests reported Allen County sheriff’s deputies arrested Travis L. Stoldt, 39, Buffalo, Tuesday for suspicion of driving while impaired, possessing a controlled substance and possessing drug paraphernalia. Deputies arrested Roderick E. Reed, 50, Kansas City,…

(AP) — Eight measles cases have now been identified in Johnson County, with another two in Linn and Miami counties, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Health departments in the three counties…

Rose Mary Riley entertained 19 members of Unity Club at her home March 26. Norma Stahl reviewed the book, “Moon River and Me,” by Andy Williams, a memoir by one of the most popular and…

The first program of the “Grow It, Prepare It” series — “Gardening 101” — will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Allen County Courthouse meeting room in Iola. This is a basic gardening program…

NEVADA, Mo. (AP) — A woman has been charged with trying to smuggle drugs to an inmate at a southwest Missouri jail inside a Bible. The Kansas City Star reports that Ashley Despain, of Nevada,…

Lesa Cole and Liz Gamble of Iola Public Library and Kathy Hale of Savonburg Public Library recently attended a summer reading workshop sponsored by the Southeast Kansas Library System. Kim Lehman, featured speaker, shared books,…

‘American Choppers’ comes to Garnett GARNETT — A motorcycle built to promote ethanol use in motorcycles brought a crowd of more than 500 to the East Kansas Agri Energy ethanol plant Saturday for a television…

FORT LAUDER-DALE, Fla. (AP) — The brother of the suspected Florida high school gunman pleaded no contest today to trespassing on the campus where the deadly rampage happened and was sentenced to time served and…