Gentry Dougherty has turned his lifelong interest in the RMS Titanic into a 7-foot homage to the sunken ocean liner.Dougherty, a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, recently teamed with school librarian Deb Greenwall to create…

Aging school facilities have USD 257 officials pondering the idea of starting from scratch. A laundry list of repairs and upgrades – to the tune of about $4 million – begging for attention are forcing…

Earlene A. Johnson, 80, of Savonburg died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, in Chanute. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Friends Home Lutheran Church in Savonburg. Burial will follow in the Swedish Cemetery…

Kathy Lacen, 60, of Ada, Okla., died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at a Norman, Okla., hospital. She was born June 25, 1951, in Kansas City, to Donald W. and Earlene Birdsong Rust. She attended grade…

Natalie R. Morey, 77, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, at her home in Jenks, Okla.  She is the mother of Vince Coons and his wife, Pam, Iola, and grandmother of Meaghan and Mason Coons. Memorial…

Heath and Heather Curry, Iola, announce the birth of a son, Cade Glen, born Jan. 26, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 21 inches…

Dear Editor, As many of you know, serving on a board of directors can be a tiring and thankless job. Often, the meeting times clash with family events or other personal and professional obligations. To…

A debate coach will tell his team that when they argue the negative they must first demonstrate the need for change. That’s why it’s called the negative: one must first bad-mouth the affirmative — the…

HIGHLAND — Allen County Community College’s Red Devil men swept the season’s two-game series with Highland Community College’s Scotties. The Red Devils downed the Scotties 82-71 on Highland’s court Wednesday. The Red Devil women weren’t…

Iola High School students Brad Bazo, Cody Cokely, Jason Tidd, Tristan Sigfusson and Eli Grover have qualified to compete in the National History Bowl at the end of April in Washington, D.C. “I am so…