This was week 3 for middle school sports in Allen County, here is the round up from Thursday’s action:    Iola Football The seventh-grade Ponies rebound from last week’s crushing defeat against Fort Scott with…

The body of Tim Fritch, who had been missing from the Humboldt area since Saturday evening, was found in the Neosho River shortly before noon Tuesday. Fritch, 41, was spotted by Kansas Department of Wildlife…

While Allen County’s new wind farm is up and going, the fate of more wind energy development in neighboring counties is decidedly murkier. Wind resistance is coming in two forms in Neosho County, and could…

Could lightning striking the fuel station at the Allen County airport be a blessing in disguise? According to public works director Mitch Garner, maybe so. The fuel station was struck by lightning sometime last week…

Jackson Wilks and Levi Meiwes competed Saturday in the Poultry Judging Contest at the Kansas State Fair.  Meiwes placed 10th in the state and Wilks took home 15th place.   Allen County 4-H?ers, Katie Weide,…

ACC President John Masterson plans to take the pulse of countywide support for a new activity center before the college ventures further. Masterson plans to set up meetings with Allen County commissioners, as well as…

Hope Unlimited and the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program teamed up today to honor first responders by donating plates of cookies to law enforcement, firefighters and ambulance personnel. Delivering the sweets to the Allen County Sheriff’s…

ELSMORE ? It?s not easy feeling you?re the unwanted ?stepchild? of the county, but the residents of Elsmore are not letting that hold them back in trying to make the remote berg a better place…

Allen County commissioners are giving serious consideration to pulling out of a consortium with the Girard Juvenile Detention Center because of a new law that severely restrict the kinds of instances that puts a youth…

Public service is often a thankless job. Sandra Drake knew that the moment she joined the Allen County appraiser’s office 30 years ago. It’s the nature of the beast, she explained, to decide how much…