Month: April 2022

A Local Work Group (LWG) meeting is planned for 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Bronson Community Center, 509 Clay St. It will include breakfast and conservation discussions. The purpose is for local farmers, ranchers, landowners…

Allen County Area Retired School Personnel met on Wednesday in the Mary Ellen Stadler room at ACC with 14 members and two guests, David Loomis, and speaker, Sharon Moreland, in attendance.  Moreland, director of Iola…

YATES CENTER — Yates Center High had the upper hand in a Wildcat vs. Wildcat softball showdown with Marmaton Valley Thursday. Yates Center prevailed, 14-4, in the first game and 14-1 in the second. Morgan…

After the Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the high court, we now proudly call her Justice Jackson. Many understandably celebrate that she’s the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. …

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: John C. Carper, Iola, theft, $427.17, probation Joseph R. Griffiths, Iola, driving while suspended, domestic battery, disorderly conduct, $1,150, probation Sunny Walgren, Iola,…

Rewind a couple of decades or so to 1995. The Allen County Historical Society, under a project spearheaded by Iola attorney Clyde Toland, had raised enough money to bring the old, crumbling boyhood home of…

INDEPENDENCE — Iola High’s golf team battled cold, wet and especially windy conditions Thursday at the Independence Invitational.  Leading the Iola contingent was sophomore Xander Sellman, who carded an 88 to finish sixth overall. First-year…

When the odds seem formidable, the success is all the sweeter.  Thursday evening, Marla Luckert, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, hailed the efforts of the Allen County Drug Court to help curb drug…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A missile hit a train station where thousands of people had gathered to flee in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 50 on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said, as workers unearthed bodies from…

Dr. Frank Perez, director of bands and associate professor of music at Baker University in Baldwin City, directed the Three Rivers League Junior High Mass Band at Marmaton Valley on Thursday. He offered a music…