Month: April 2010

HUMBOLDT — Rodney Sigg’s patience paid off last Friday at Humboldt Speedway.Sigg stayed back watching for the right time to get past race leader Justin Folk. Folk led the race most of the time being…

UNIONTOWN — Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcat boys placed in 15 of 18 events at Monday’s Uniontown High Invitational track meet. They posted nine gold medal performances.At the end of the meet, the Wildcats had amassed…

Windy and cool weather conditions prevailed Monday morning at the annual Iola High Buck Quincy Invitational golf tournament. The 18-hole event was held at Allen County Country Club.Two players handled the weather conditions and the…

I am writing in concern of the four-wheeler situation in our town. I called to find out if you could ride a moped on the streets. I was told that if it is 49cc or…

When I read Friday’s paper and saw that decorating the downtown of Iola would result in losing parking spaces I wondered how stupid some people can get.The stores are there to sell things. But how…

Saturday will be a day of fun and frolic at Iola’s Riverside Park when the May Day Family Fun Festival takes place. “Absolutely everything about this is free to families,” said Bowlus Fine Arts Center…

Iolans can sound off through an online survey on their views about the city’s parks system.The survey has been prepared by Vision Iola, which is looking at potential improvements in the city’s downtown business district,…

John Masterson, president of Allen County Community College, told Sen. Derek Schmidt and Rep. Bill Otto here Monday this was the first year in the 17 that he had prepared budgets for ACCC that numbers…

The news was sobering, but the hope uplifting as 60 representatives from nine counties gathered in Iola Monday morning to discuss the health of their districts.County commissioners, city managers, health and business professionals found common…

MORAN — Nancy Meyer, completing her fourth year as superintendent of USD 256 schools, resigned effective June 30 Monday night. As an adjunct to Meyer’s resignation, board members agreed to pay her health insurance premiums…