Betty Jean Leslie, 89, Iola, died Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, at Iola Nursing Center.She was born Feb. 16, 1922, in Iola, the daughter of William Lloyd and Inez Isabell (Ransom) Gardner. She grew up in…

Royalyn Dale Lynes, 88, died Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, in Eureka.She was born in Lakin on Dec. 22, 1922. She worked as a nurse at Riverside Hospital in Wichita until her retirement.She married Cleo Lynes…

UNIONTOWN — Uniontown High’s varsity and junior varsity volleyball squads capped a successful evening Tuesday by sweeping two matches apiece.The varsity had little difficulty in rolling past Pleasanton 25-7, 25-9 and Uniontown 25-9, 25-15.The junior…

STILLWATER, Okla. — Getting out and “cutting loose” was what Vince DeGrado was expecting from his Allen County Community College runners. The Red Devils didn’t do as expected in last weekend’s Oklahoma State University’s 75th…

LAHARPE — The LaHarpe PRIDE Committee will give free hot dogs to anyone who shows up Saturday to help with a paint party.PRIDE members will be on hand to help paint the backstop and fencing…

Angie Murphy and the dispatchers she oversees in the Allen County Emergency Response Center want to be sure that if the occasion ever arises, young 911 callers know what to do.For the third year they…

New waiver provisions for the No Child Left Behind Act authorized last month by the Obama administration have local educators and state officials breathing a sigh of relief.When enacted in 2002, NCLB mandated every single…

Joshua and Laura Mathis, Iola, announce the birth of a daughter, Mariah Evelyn, born Aug. 15, 2011, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was 19 inches…

Memorial services for Paul Martin Goodspeed of rural Colony, whose obituary was published in Thursday’s Iola Register, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Colony Community Church. The Rev. Steve Bubna will officiate. Inurnment…

Kansans hungry for good economic news should focus on — Kansas.The Kansas Department of Labor has just released a 50-page economic report that shows the Sunflower state, like the rest of the farm belt, has…