CHANUTE — Iola Middle School’s girls opened their basketball season Monday against host Royster Middle School’s Rockets in Chanute.The Ponies’ only win came in seventh-grade B-team play. Iola beat Royster 17-16. Scoring four points each…

COLONY — Crest High’s Lancers are back in the Kansas Eight-Man, Division I playoffs for simple reasons.“Playing as a team and hard work,” said Brent Smith, Lancer head coach. “These kids have been doing their…

Leave it to Iolans, when amid one of the worst recessions in history, folks still find time to give.Take the 2009 Christmas season.While many were stretched thin with their own economic crises, organizers of Adopt-A-Child…

HUMBOLDT — Mike Farran had been singing with the “3” Rusty Nails gospel group for about a year and a half when complications from diabetes lead him down a new path.Farran, Ricky Yeager, Le Roy,…

Iolan Glen Searcy appreciates a new service that would alert first responders if he were in trouble. “I’m on oxygen 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Searcy, 86. “I can’t be without…

Memorial contributions to First Southern Baptist Church of Salina or Hospice of Saline for Alice “Arlene” Siefker of Salina, whose obituary was published in Saturday’s Register, may sent to Carlson-Geisendorf Funeral Home, 500 S. Ohio,…

Brett Joseph Heslop, 18, of Iola died Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.He was born Feb. 3, 1992, in Lafayette, La. He was adopted by Steven M. Heslop in 2004.He graduated…

Voters will decide Tuesday whether to increase a countywide sales tax by 1⁄4 of a cent to go toward a new Allen County Hospital.Members of the Allen County Healthcare Committee address questions about the issue.…

WWCFST? What would Charles F. Scott think? ACS? or EELJR?Charles F. Scott bought the weekly Iola Register in September of 1882. It was printed from handset type on a press that was fed, a sheet…

MOUND CITY — Two winless teams kicked off their season finale Friday night.Humboldt High’s Cubs broke through first after holding host Jayhawk-Linn High’s Jayhawks on a fourth-down play at midfield. The Cubs marched down field…