Tag: Allen County

Despite red flags raised by Sheriff Bryan Murphy, Allen County commissioners passed a 2020 budget Tuesday. Murphy’s biggest concern is that the jail has 17 employees for whom commissioners have ordered Murphy give 3% cost…

According to the results from the 2017 agriculture census released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Kansas ranks fifth in production. The census is taken every four to five years, with the first being conducted…

HUMBOLDT ? Another extensive search in and near the Neosho River for Iolan Aaron Hutton, suspected in a Wednesday morning armed robbery in Iola, came up empty Thursday and Friday. Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy…

On a team with a glut of speed, the Chiefs have gotten even faster by signing De’Anthony Thomas, who was on course to switch to track and field. Had he not gotten the call from…

Saturday’s Allen County Farmers’ Market in downtown Humboldt will be the last one of the season. Vendors will be set up from 8 to 11 a.m. in Humboldt’s downtown square, offering up a wide variety…

The City Slickers 4-H Club held their post Allen County Fair meeting Aug. 11 at the Riverside Park Community Building. President Jillian Keller called the meeting to order and Ty and Shelby Shaughnessy led the…

The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce is offering up a tour of Allen County’s new Prairie Queen Wind Farm. The 10 a.m. tour departs from the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Tickets sell for $12 apiece.…

Multiple layers of varying colors of clouds swept through Iola from the north this morning, with the arrival of a storm front expected to keep the area drenched the next few days. A flash flood…

Thirty-one years ago August 1988 Aldie Ensminger, a Republican candidate for the 10th District State Representative, led in votes 1,407 to 1,115 over John Carder to win the primary election Tuesday. Denise Apt, a candidate…

While payment amounts for the Market Facilitation Program ? a federal assistance program for farmers hurt by the current trade wars ?  were released last week for each county nationwide, it remains to be seen…