Month: June 2021

EVANS, Ga. — Allen Community College’s dream season has come to an end.  The Red Devil women’s soccer team gave fans one last thrill Saturday, topping the nation’s eighth-ranked team in St. Louis Community College…

OTTAWA — Bob Johnson has a message for his Iola A American Legion squad. If the Indians’ pitchers can throw strikes, and the squad plays the defense they’re capable of, they should win pretty much…

From DC to Kansas, culture war issues are topping the conservative agenda. Many conservatives are advocating restricting speech in schools to ban something called “critical race theory” (CRT).   CRT isn’t a theory like, say,…

The first Iola Recreation Department-sponsored T-Ball games of 2021 brought loads of energy, fun and laughs to Riverside Park as Piqua State Bank and The Iola Register took to the field.  Go to the Register’s…

Dear editor, We are supposed to learn from history. It is a shame so many important aspects of our history have been omitted because someone might get “upset” or “offended” by some aspect of history. …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Minnesota first baseman Miguel Sanó swooped in to catch a popped-up bunt and start a triple play, highlighting the Twins’ 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Sanó…

A single tree was standing. Tall grass was swaying in the wind as Isaac Reeve led his rented horse across the expanse of southern Anderson County. He’d set out from Colony around 1873, searching for…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents, in response to a question from a state senator, is asking its universities to produce a list of courses that include critical race theory, an academic concept that…

BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A mother and two young children died Saturday in a boating accident that also hospitalized the father, Kansas state game wardens said. The accident happened on the Neosho River in the…

TOPEKA — A pair of nonprofit organizations working to encourage voting by mail Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of a new Kansas law banning out-of-state entities from sending advance mail ballot applications to…