ELSMORE — Elsmore Ruritan Club is sponsoring an Independence Day celebration Saturday. Concessions will be served beginning at 6:30 p.m. Diners can enjoy hot dogs, Polish sausages, Frito chili pies, homemade ice cream, cookies, brownies,…

Saturday?s LaHarpe Day celebration drew folks of all ages to take part in the annual festival?s resumption     LaHarpe VFW members Theresa Yatzbacher, left, and Ed Hoover ride a float in the parade. BY…

LAHARPE — After a seven-year hiatus, LaHarpe residents are ready to celebrate once again. LaHarpe Day, an annual celebration last held in 2012, will return with a slew of activities all day Saturday. The festival…

    Click here to see more images of the 2019 Little Oscars Celebration   The 54th annual Little Oscars celebration ? themed ?An Evening on Broadway? ? highlighted another banner year for the Iola High…

USD 257 voters agreed by a nearly two-to-one margin to build the first new school in the district in 43 years. Voters approved all three parts of Tuesday’s bond issue: a new elementary school for…

Why eggs at Easter?  According to Agriculture Department Historians, the Easter egg may have gotten its start centuries before Christianity as a celebration of spring.   Historians say the Persians and the Egyptians exchanged eggs…

Service to others was a common theme Saturday at the Founder’s Day celebration of Kappa Alpha chapter of Phi Tau Omega sorority at Iola’s Riverside Park. The local sorority hosted 78 guests from across eastern…

Ruth Wood turns 101 today.  A small woman with snow-white curls and fierce, intelligent blue-green eyes, Ruth lives at Greystone Assisted Living with her spirited rescue cat, Izzy. Ruth was born into a farm family…

After years of planning, the Allen Community College Student Center was officially unveiled to the public Wednesday afternoon in an event that drew scores of enthusiastic observers to the gleaming new facility for a ribbon…