“I don’t want anyone to think I’m expendable just for the sake of the economy,” Ken McGuffin half-heartedly joked Thursday afternoon. With each passing day, McGuffin’s remark takes on a grimmer tone. As of Friday,…

In the wake of Tuesday’s decision by Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration to shutter all K-12 schools in Kansas in response to the COVID-19 crisis, parents are doing their best to cope and start figuring out…

Local health professionals are researching options to organize a central drive-thru testing site for those in Allen County who suspect they may have COVID-19, a deadly new coronavirus that’s causing disruptions to businesses, schools and…

Under the current plan, students will return to Iola schools Monday. But as the national and state responses to a deadly new coronavirus continue to evolve, school administrators are taking things day by day. USD…

What a difference a week makes.  At 9:30 a.m. on March 8, B & B Country Cafe bustled. Tables were full. Wait staff rushed to take orders and fill coffee mugs. It might be a…

Michael Graves wanted to honor a man he barely knew, so he made up a book about him. “To Leave a Shadow,” the winter book selection for Iola Reads, tells the story of private investigator…

Iola city officials announced today they are closing City Hall to the public and taking other preventive health measures in light of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Among the steps announced by Mayor Jon Wells…

First Presbyterian Church was the site of this week’s Lenten breakfast. From left, Bill Mentzer, Marjorie Mentzer and Sharon Whitworth visit before the start of the breakfast.

The votes have been counted, so it is only right to announce the Register’s winners for February’s Allen County Area Athlete of the Month. These are the winners: Logan Brown — Brown became Iola High’s…

Arrests reported Dana J. Guilford, 35, Humboldt, was arrested Saturday for suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, interfering with law enforcement and warrants relating to separate charges of driving while suspended and interfering with…