Scampering back to first base is Iola High’s Levi Ashmore as a throw to the bag comes from the Independence High pitcher during the teams’ first game of a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader Tuesday at…

Iola High’s Fillies hit the ball Tuesday at home against Independence High’s Lady Bulldogs. The problem was being able to outscore Independence. Iola scored five runs in the first inning of the first game. The…

Developing shooting skills with bows and arrows and guns and the sport’s growth are behind a youth shoot April 21 sponsored by the local National Wild Turkey Federation chapter. The Kansas First Upland Pioneers Chapter…

Tradition is a big part of Allen Community College baseball. On April 20, a new tradition begins. The first class of the newly formed Allen Community College Baseball Hall of Fame will be inducted.  The…

Thirteen event records were set at Tuesday’s 2012 Iola Middle School Invitational track meet. And one was by an IMS athlete. Branden Plumlee not only broke the IMS Invitational mark in the seventh-grade boys’ 1600-meter…

LAHARPE — Junk is good, Ray Maloney declared. The owner of Ray’s Metal Depot explained how one man’s trash can be another man’s treasure, all the while benefiting the environment. Maloney hosted a group of…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High School will begin offering a vocational construction class in the fall. The class already had been approved by USD 256 Board of Education members, contingent upon an instructor being hired.…

GAS — If Gas council members decide to open an alley in the north part of town between Martin and Morrill streets, they may have to move it first. The alley, dedicated in the town’s…

Angela Murphy fears higher starting wages paid to Anderson County dispatchers might tempt some of Allen County’s. She told commissioners Tuesday an advertisement in a Garnett newspaper offered dispatchers $12.09 to start, while new dispatchers…

At mid-afternoon Tuesday, corn planting concluded on Doug Strickler’s farms. Other area farmers are at about the same stage. “We had a good, smooth planting season once the ground dried,” Strickler said He started on…