The tenor of Monday night’s city council meeting was reportedly relaxed, friendly and even downright productive. For the first time in more than a year no executive session was called to discuss items in private.…

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Bike riding and walking the family dog, Matt Bollig is out and about a month after suffering a critical spine injury. There is no miracle. The Chanute native is a paraplegic as…

Allen County commissioners fulfilled their promise to cut the mill levy to support the 2013 budget, but approved a spending plan Tuesday that has expenditures of $867,000 more than this year. The levy will be…

The Bowlus will mark the “Triumphant” return of the Southeast Kansas Christian Artists Series to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Triumphant Quartet, one of the country’s most acclaimed gospel quartets, will kick off the 2012-13…

GAS — The 2013 budget for Gas was approved at a public hearing Tuesday evening. The budget projects total expenditures of $605,738, compared to $538,288 this year. A property tax levy of 29.212 mills will…

A schedule loaded with food, worship and fun is in store this weekend for Wesley United Methodist Church’s second annual Keeping It Real celebration. The church’s three-day event kicks off Friday evening with a taco…

Water restrictions went into effect Monday — but what does that mean for residents? The Kansas Water Office issued stage 2 water warning to communities in Cottonwood and Neosho River Basins Water Assurance District No.…

Favorable bids on supplies and a huge savings in earthwork netted Allen County Hospital about $732,000 in savings, Sheldon Streeter, project manager with Murray Construction, told trustees at their meeting Tuesday night.  Streeter and his…

Rory Foster, 31, and his court-appointed attorney, Rustin Rankin, Fredonia, sought to convince District Judge David Roger on Monday that Foster had ineffective defense counsel when he was convicted of first-degree murder, rape and other…

Ronald G. Stark, 61, Buffalo, died May 20, 2012. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Countryside Funeral Home in Fredonia, 420 S. 20th St. Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com.