The LaHarpe community celebrated this weekend with a one-day festival at the city park. The day included a Color Run 5K run/3K walk, parade, baby contest, talent show, vintage baseball game and more.

“The one constant through all the years … has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked…

LAHARPE — Plans are taking shape for the June 25 LaHarpe Day celebration, complete with a vintage baseball game, color run, parade and talent show. The summer celebration returns for the first time since 2019,…

Moran Days will return Saturday for the 75th annual celebration, “Red, White and Blue Jubilee.” The events of the day include a parade at 11 a.m., and candy can be thrown. Grand marshals for the…

Buster’s back. The Buster Keaton Celebration will return to Iola in September after a four-year hiatus.  Starting in 1993, annual festivals honored the legendary screen actor and innovator who was born in Piqua. When a…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Parades canceled. Bars closed. Crowds suppressed. Mardi Gras joy is muted this year in New Orleans as authorities seek to stifle the coronavirus’s spread. And it’s a blow to the tradition-bound…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A subdued Carnival season begins Wednesday after the coronavirus pandemic put an end to the crowd-heavy balls and street parades that draw thousands of people to the city every year. The…

River Hess said he would have been happy winning a prize for “Best Puppet Design” at the long-delayed and scaled down Little Oscars event Friday evening.  Spoiler alert: He didn’t win that category. But he…

Hunting for an authentic experience of Americana over the long Independence Day weekend? Toronto Days 2020 has just what you’re looking for. Tonight starting at 6 o’clock, the pizza party and “mud stomp” begin at…

Donna and Ray Graf of Iola are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on July 11. They were united in marriage on July 11, 1970, at Memorial Chapel in Leavenworth. Leavenworth is where they have spent…