COLONY — Lunch begins at 10:50 a.m. at Crest schools, with the youngest students filing into the small cafeteria to find a seat and enjoy their meal. Lunchtime is divided into four sessions. The second…

A crowd of nearly 600 students saw the inner workings of the Kansas legal system Tuesday. Students from Iola, Humboldt, Moran, Yates Center, Chanute and Fort Scott nearly filled the Bowlus Fine Arts Center to…

Community members gathered Tuesday evening at Allen County Regional Hospital for a luminary walk for suicide awareness. About 20 participants decorated luminaries, featured above, to remember those lost to suicide and help spread awareness about…

Piqua State Bank, a part of the local banking community since 1910, is no more. The bank, which had branches in Piqua, Gas and Yates Center, has been acquired by Bank of Commerce, effective Sept.…

Local families can honor the veterans in their lives with a banner displayed downtown for Veterans Day.  The Allen County Veterans Committee is offering the opportunity to display such banners on light poles around the…

Friends and members of the Iola Chamber of Commerce gathered at Ad Astra Radio Tuesday morning for a ribbon cutting to celebrate the radio station’s new ownership. Extensive renovations to the building and its radio…

Pristine weather conditions greeted throngs of festival-goers Saturday for the annual Moran Day Celebration.

Thrive Allen County is one of 10 project teams across the state of Kansas awarded a Change Community Solutions grant.  NetWork Kansas, a Kansas-based nonprofit dedicated to the growth of entrepreneurship and small businesses, approved…

Anyone can come into the Iola Senior Center Thrift store and scavenge through the large collection of coffee mugs and find one for just 25 cents. But what would you be willing to pay for…

Dorothy Sparks doesn’t remember being bitten by a tick. Sure, she brushed a few off when outdoors earlier this spring. But it would be weeks before she realized she had contracted not just one but…