Month: July 2010

Anyone looking for a place to dispose of that PC dinosaur from 1995 taking up too much room and attracting too must dust may drop it by Riverside Park Saturday morning.Allen County 4-H members, in…

The Ball Brothers, a popular quartet of gospel-singing brothers who have performed twice in Iola, will return Friday as part of the Southeast Kansas Christian Artists Series.The Illinois-based group will sing at 7 p.m. at…

A graveside inurnment service for John Lewis Upton, whose death March 3 was announced previously in the Register, will be at noon Saturday at Fairview Cemetery in Mildred.

Marvin L. Trumpp, 82, Garnett, died Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett.Funeral services are pending and will be announced later by Feuerborn Family Funeral Service. Online condolences may be sent…

Carol Lynn Sinclair, 66, Iola, died Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.She was born June 1, 1944, on a farm west of Humboldt, the daughter of Raymond C. and Madelene (Hartwig)…

Birthdays — in particular, being able to celebrate more of them in the future — is the theme for the upcoming Allen County Relay For Life.The overnight relay, which begins early Friday evening at the…

Commissioner sees services at odds When Allen County commissioners voted Tuesday to rescind an $80,000 payment to support Iola’s ambulance service, Chairman Gary McIntosh considered it as a way to reopen ambulance discussions.He also views…

Monday’s editorial on globalization made several errors in its recounting of the history of Berg Manufacturing, Echlin, Inc. and the progression of the company to Haldex. The errors were made because the “facts” came from…

Rep. Jerry Moran should be nominated by Kansas Republicans for the U.S. Senate over Rep. Todd Tiarht. While both have campaigned for the nomination by appealing to the far, far right fringe of the party,…

FORT SCOTT — In the final regular season swim meet of the summer, Iola Swim Team’s Seahorses competed against host Fort Scott Monday.The meet was postponed  June 16 because of a thunderstorm.Next up for the…