Uniontown High’s Eagle girls won the Three Rivers League softball title, going 9-3 this spring. The Eagle girls had five players earn all-league honors.There were nine players from Uniontown and eight players from Marmaton Valley…

Humboldt High junior Kylee Carson did not receive league honors. But her season’s performance did get noticed.Carson was named to the Kansas Softball Coaches Association’s Kansas Class 2-1A state softball first team this week. Carson,…

Kelsey Larson and Ashton Isch reported to training camp this week for a trip of a lifetime. The two area seniors-to-be are members of an 18-and-Under USA Basketball team headed to the 2011 United World…

A call is out for teams to fill a benefit men’s slo-pitch softball tournament. The tournament is June 25-26 at Iola’s Riverside Park.The tournament is sponsored by the Allen County Kids Wrestling Club. Proceeds go…

Iola American Legion Post 15’s Single A Indians held on to win the first of two games at home Wednesday. They lost the second contest — a wooden bat affair.With the bases loaded and no…

Competing on home court or in this case in home waters, Iola’s Seahorses won 43 of the 78 races contested Wednesday against visiting Erie. It was the first home swim meet of the summer for…

A combination of layered clouds and the sun peaking above the horizon painted a pleasant celestial scene in Iola’s northeastern sky early this morning.

Douglas Armstrong used his elderly mother’s feisty personality and vivid recollections from her childhood growing up in Humboldt to shape the character Emma and setting in his first novel, “Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows.”Armstrong set his…

The day is soon coming when 5-year-old Ty Stokes will be able to go swimming, eat the foods he wants “and just be a regular little boy again,” his grandmother said.Stokes, who has battled kidney…

MORAN — Between the monkeys that howl, hot cocoa laced with chili peppers and an active volcano that wasn’t, a group of Marmaton Valley High School students experienced a little bit of everything during a…