It was a decision with a lot of thought behind it, according to Mike Hayes.Hayes stepped down as head men’s basketball coach at Allen County Community College last week. Hayes spent the last 15 years…

Allen Countians who met Sam Brownback, Republican gubernatorial candidate, in Riverside Park Saturday got a good dose of big-time politics.Brownback, in the U.S. Senate since 1996, was in Iola as part of his 32-city “Road…

A volunteer group is being organized to prepare and distribute information to voters prior to the general election Nov. 2, when the proposal to build a new Allen County Hospital will be decided.Anyone who wants…

Listening to Lyle Kern tell how he discovered the sport of pickleball is a lot like reading about the sport’s invention.Kern, a longtime tennis player, has an injured left shoulder that prevents him from serving…

KINCAID — Carrying meals at noon Wednesday to tables at Kincaid’s new nutrition site in the school building that served the community for 70 years is nothing new for Allen Ward. The chore was one…

Donald “Bill” and Leanna Brixey, Kincaid, will be honored at a 50th wedding anniversary celebration from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 21 in the Lone Elm Community Building.Friends and relatives are invited to attend. The…

— PAID OBITUARY — Rex R. Clements, 81, of Humboldt died Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.He was born Dec. 19, 1928, in Ava, Mo., to Raymond Dewey and…

— PAID OBITUARY — Jane Lisbeth (Twadell) MacDonald passed away peacefully at home in her sleep on Aug. 9, 2010, at the age of 73 after a brief struggle with cancer. She is survived by…

Exciting results: Seventy-nine units of blood were drawn Wednesday from 85 donors at the Community Blood Center bloodmobile at the North Community Building. What a wonderful day for all.A celebration of a Community Star Award…

A couple of weeks ago Tapanga Turner was introduced to the Register’s readers as a young lady on target in her first year of trapshooting.Turner competed in the 2010 Grand American World Trapshooting Championships in…