Violet Beatrice Hatfield, 89, died Saturday, April 7, 2012, at Coffey County Hospital in Burlington. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Christian Church in Le Roy. Entombment will be at 3…

Dear editor, The Gaslight, a newsletter put out by Jeff Kluever of the Allen County Historical Society, had some interesting information on teachers who applied to teach at Horville. One of the teachers who applied…

INDEPENDENCE — Allen Community College’s baseball team went 2-2 in a four-game Jayhawk Eastern Division series at Independence Community College over the weekend. The Red Devils won the first game on Friday and again on…

After going 4-12 in their last 16 NJCAA Region VI, Division II district games, Allen Community College’s Red Devils swept a four-game home series with two district opponents. On Friday, the ACC softball team defeated…

Storybook weather greeted hundreds of youngsters at Riverside Park Sunday for an assortment of Easter activities hosted by Iola’s First Assembly of God Church. Children flocked to a series of game stations, from tossing rings…

Jim Talkington filed Friday for the District 3 seat on the Allen County Commission. Talkington, serving as a trustee at Allen Community College, will seek to fill the position held since January 2009 by Gary…

Project 17, the southeast Kansas regionalization initiative, will host its spring 2012 regional summit from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at the St. John’s Catholic Church Parish Hall in Iola.  Project 17 is a regionalization…

During a visit to the Kansas Senate with her father, Sen. Jeff King, 5-year-old Amelie asked if he wanted to know what she thought. Of course he did. “I think there are some people there…

Allen County officers have asked County Attorney Wade Bowie to charge Molly E. Wilson, 29, with giving a false alarm.  They said Wilson made a medical call to the 911 dispatch center Tuesday that resulted…

Lorenzo Jensen has spent his life building bridges. A home he started in 2003 is now a “bridge” for him and wife Jackie, from years of living in mobile and manufactured homes to a landmark…