Month: October 2025

Multiple area teams aim to end this year’s volleyball season on a high note, with just a few more appearances scheduled in the coming weeks. As the regular season ends, the Marmaton Valley Wildcats, Crest…

The Yates Center Wildcats fell to Erie in a three-set nailbiter Tuesday, setting up a crucial showdown for the Three Rivers League title with Jayhawk-Lynn (17-9, 11-0) next Tuesday. The Wildcats (19-11, 11-1) took the first…

With just a few games left in the regular season, Iola coach Lauren Moots believes consistency is the only thing holding the Mustangs back from being an elite level team. The Mustangs fell Tuesday to…

For one morning at Humboldt High School, students suddenly became 26-year-old adults with jobs, spouses, budgets, and even babies to care for. Some were shocked to find out how expensive life could be. Others quickly…

MORAN — Plans are in the works to install a nine-hole disc golf course at the Moran City Park. The Moran Youth Recreation Association will receive $5,000 from the Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative’s Concern for…

Mike Scanlon wants people to know Iola has a pretty cool trail system. Scanlon, executive director of the newly-formed nonprofit Kansas Trails Inc., was in town last weekend riding the Lehigh Portland trails. “One of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for public television stations suffering from cuts in federal funding.…

Iola’s Grace Lutheran Church will host a service Tuesday evening to commemorate slain political activist Charles Kirk. The 7 p.m. event will include an hour of prayer, following the order of Vespers “to pray for…

Repairs have been approved for the Delaware Road overpass spanning U.S. 169 south of Humboldt. PBX Corporation & Subsidiary, Sapulpa, Okla., was awarded the $626,527.57 bid for the repairs, according to a Kansas Department of…

TOPEKA — University of Kansas indigenous studies director Alex Red Corn said a $1.5 million grant would allow a five-year collaboration with tribal nations and school districts in three states to broaden the pipeline of…