HUMBOLDT – A blocked punt set the tone of the game and Humboldt High’s Cubs prevailed in the final contest of the 2011 season.Zach Osborn blocked a Jayhawk-Linn High punt in the first quarter. Trey…

CHETOPA – District title. Check. Home game in first round of playoffs. Check. Three Rivers League Eight-Man Division championship. Check.Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats had a checklist going into Thursday night’s regular season finale. The Wildcats…

LACYGNE – “Win. Win the game,” said Jerrik Sigg, senior tailback, when asked his and the team’s goal Thursday night.Win they did. Iola High’s Mustangs brought down the curtain on the 2011 football season with…

Mary Darlene Meisch, 76, of Iola and formerly of Howard died Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, at Windsor Place in Iola. She was born on June 18, 1935, in Piedmont, to Wesley I. and Mildred E.…

Wilma Bertha Perkins, 92, of Humboldt died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at Windsor Place in Iola. She had been a resident of Humboldt since 1975.Wilma was born on Nov. 8, 1918, in Mountain Grove, Mo.,…

Alyssa BrockerKerri and Jonathan Brocker, Shawnee, announce the birth of a daughter, Alyssa Jean, born on Oct. 6, 2011. She weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. She joins sisters, Jordyn Marie,…

Creative destruction is the process in which economic development sprouts from the destruction of some prior economic order: It’s painful for those being destroyed, but beneficial for the new order. It’s the story of innovation…

COFFEYVILLE — Iola Soccer Club’s A-team lost a heartbreaker to Independence Sunday at Coffeyville. Independence notched a 2-1 win over Iola.Iola’s goal was scored by Devan Herfurth. Mason Key had eight saves in goal for…

OTTAWA — Jeff Hull, a 1984 Iola High graduate and standout football player, was inducted into the Ottawa University Braves Athletic Hall of Fame last weekend.“It’s an honor as it approaches 25 years since I…

Allen County Community College’s Red Devils did their job Wednesday night. They beat Coffeyville in a four-set match at home.By the time they came off the court, the Red Devils knew they had made the…