LYNDON —  Yates Center High’s track athletes opened the 2011 season last Friday in the Lyndon High Invitational track meet.Brae Adams started her senior season with a gold-medal performance in the girls’ discus. She won…

ALTAMONT — Iola High’s Mustangs captured the gold medal in the 4×800-meter relay to open the 2011 track season Friday.The Mustangs finished ninth in a 10-team Labette County High Invitational track meet. They scored 30…

ALTAMONT  — It was no April Fools for Iola High’s Fillies as they opened the 2011 track season Friday.Winning four events and scoring points in 11 of the 18 events boosted the Fillies to a…

Symbolism in cemeteries took center stage for Anita Shikles and an audience of two Saturday morning.Shikles, whose art show “In The Garden,” opened Sunday in the Mary L. Martin Art Gallery of the Bowlus Fine…

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As Dean Karnazes ran along Hawaii Road five miles south of Moran Sunday morning, he found the wide open spaces of rural Allen County much more inviting than facing off against semi-trucks on U.S. 54.Karnazes,…

Gary L. Fronk, 74, of Sun City West, Ariz., died Saturday, March 19, 2011, at Hospice of the Valley of multiple illnesses after a four-month battle.He was born Jan. 17,1937, in Iola, to Charles and…

Donald and Shirley Steward, Springfield, Mo., will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday.Donald L. Stewart and Shirley J. Beaman were married April 7, 1951, in Nevada Mo.Three children were born to the couple, Ken…

Ron Wilson makes a lot of mental notes. He did Thursday evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, while telling about rural Kansas stories he has found and scripted for radio since 1992 for the…

Ada I. Warnock, 75, of Junction City, who has family in Bayard in Allen County, died Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at her home.Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Christian Church, 1429…