Iola’s Community Involvement Task Force/PRIDE Committee received dozens of potato plant vines from Lincoln Elementary School for use in flower pots around the downtown square. The students maintained the plants, transplanted from last year’s floral…

LAHARPE — Three Allen County high school students — Iola High’s Jonathan Poffenbarger, Humboldt High’s Thane Meadows and Marmaton Valley High’s Mykayla Ard — have been named recipients of scholarships from LaHarpe High School alumni.…

“Milk drinkers make better rowers” is the sign painted on the oar-lock innertube raft powered by Ron Coltrane, Mike Pucket and Doug Coltrane which was the first raft under the Neosho River bridge at Humboldt…

Parents took over the May 3 meeting of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club. The move was in honor of Parent’s Night. Specifically, the parents held the offices of their 4-H member.  Finley Nelson led the…

City commissioners voted to begin construction of a new fire hall and a new city hall. Bids will be accepted May 24 for wrecking the Andrews building on the north side of the square to…

Stock car racing season opens at Lapland track, Gas City. Glen and Lyle Harvey will open “Lapland” for the fifth season and look forward to a good year of entertainment for hotrod fans.  ***** Allen…

Larry Wittmer gave the Communion Meditation. He recently went to hear a Jewish speaker that said only half of one percent of 6.5 million ethnic Jews in Israel are Christians. The man was part of…

“The Children’s Blizzard” by Melanie Benjamin is set during the massive upper Plains “Children’s Blizzard” of 1888, which killed 235 people. It got its name from the many schoolchildren who were either trapped in their…

BATON ROUGE, LA —  Lorraine Kuzen-Stephens of Humboldt was recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Kuzen-Stephens was initiated at Fort Hays…

Wesley United Methodist Church and the LaHarpe PRIDE Committee will once again distribute boxes of food to anybody who wants one Wednesday morning. The boxes will be handed out at 10:30 a.m.. in the south…