Highway to reopen when work shuts down for winter WELDA — Work to widen U.S. 169/59 between Welda and Garnett is aiming for a temporary reopening of the highway later this summer or fall when…

I was sitting in Kalida Cemetery, near the final resting place of John Welch, who was killed in the infamous gun battle on the Yates Center square sometime around April 1880, when the town was…

“I’m a little nervous but not scared,” said Iolan Gerardo Gonzalez, who just opened Vaquero’s Mexican restaurant on the Yates Center square. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was Monday, with quite a few community members in attendance.…

YATES CENTER — City officials announced Wednesday the Yates Center Swimming Pool will not open in 2020, because of COVID-19 pandemic. “The safety, health and well-being of the entire community is of the utmost importance,”…

A snowy sky hung dimly over the Yates Center square as I pressed my face against the glass of what was once the State Exchange Bank. I imagined the teller counter had returned, the bars,…

No matter how many times I ford the low-water crossing near Lake Fegan dam, I hold my breath. Doesn’t matter the water is only two inches deep, though it gurgles and babbles as it rolls…

For the fifth year in a row, dancers from a Yates Center-based studio performed to raise money for CASA, the national Court Appointed Special Advocate association. Performers from Brenda’s Dance in Chanute and Reflections of…

Attention cattle ranchers!  The Kansas State University Winter Ranch Management Seminar series will run from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Woodson County 4-H building in Yates Center.  The meeting will begin with…

After months of waiting to gain access to the sandstone castle cave at the old townsite of Kalida, southeast of Yates Center on Osage Road, I sat beneath one of its multi-ringed towers, reveling in…

The ball tips next week on the winter sports scene for all but one of the Iola Register prep sports basketball teams. Iola High’s Fillies and Mustangs begin the 2019-20 basketball season Friday by traveling…