Darrell R. Ard, 74, Stark, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2014, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Moran.…

Graveside inurnment services for Donald K. Buchholz, Moran, who died Nov. 18, 2013, at the Moran Manor, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Moran Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Allen County Hospice and…

George Louis Riebel, 86, rural Iola, died Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at his home.George was born Oct. 21, 1927, at Westphalia, the son of Joseph and Flora (Decker) Riebel. He grew up in Westphalia and…

Dorothy W. Reed, 91, Gas, died Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, at Harry Hynes Hospice in Wichita.Dorothy was born March 9, 1922, on a farm northeast of Yates Center, the daughter of Bert and Hattie (Culver)…

Forrest Roy Baker, 82, Garnett, passed away on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Friday, at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett. The…

In an effort to thwart successful enrollment in the new health insurance program, a state senator has introduced legislation requiring Marketplace Navigators to be certified by the state’s attorney general before they can advise consumers…

Debbie Suchy, owner of Treasure Chest, 7 S. Jefferson Ave., has rented Marketplace, 5 E. Madison Ave., and will expand her business there.Treasure Chest isn’t closing its current building, simply growing.“We needed to expand our…

“Drawing is the foundation of the arts, if you can’t draw you can’t paint,” Steven Greenwall told a group of observers Wednesday at the Iola Public Library.Greenwall gave a demonstration on how to draw a…

The Allen County Historical Society is welcoming its new director, and she is ready to go, full-steam ahead.Haley Trezise, 28, is the newest addition to the society, and she said experience brings not only education…

John Masterson is astonished by one aspect of his career over pretty much everything else.“It’s amazing to think it’s been 40 years,” he said. “Sure doesn’t seem that long.”Masterson, whose first years at Allen Community…