Month: August 2014

Lois Ellen Stewart, 90, passed from this earthly life and went to be with the Lord on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. She had resided at Moran Manor Nursing Home in Moran for the last few…

Voters in USD 257 will decide on Nov. 4 a bond issue to build new elementary and high schools just north of town.To help define the issue, the Register will develop a number of stories…

Dear editor,David Toland passes out information pamphlets on Saturday evening concerning the Northrup-Warren house (Landmark House.) If you have one put your hand over the Landmark House. Looks like a graham cracker box in front…

Fun in the sun takes on a different meaning for Kenna Dodds. The 51-year-old Windsor Place resident uses the Iola Municipal Pool as part of her therapy in recovering from a brain aneurysm in 2010.Her…

By late this morning the race for the First District seat on the Allen County Commission was to have been decided.At 8 o’clock this morning a count of six provisional ballots was evenly split between…

A group of Iolans seeking to prevent the possible demolition of a 92-year-old house next to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center made their voices heard Saturday evening.A group of about 15 supporters of the house…

Scott David Varvel, 34, passed away July 24, 2014, in Pittsburg. Scott was born in Burlington on Nov. 15, 1979. He graduated a year early from Le Roy High School, where he grew up most…

Timothy Wayne Charboneau, 23, Erie, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, after a motor vehicle accident near Erie. Tim was born Aug. 11, 1990, in Iola, the son of Jami (Foster) Charboneau.Tim graduated from Iola…

Memorial graveside services for Wilbur Brooks, 80, formerly of Kincaid and who died March 25, 2014, in Harlingen, Texas, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Fairview Cemetery in Mildred. Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel…

Jerry Daniels, Humboldt, was named the winner in the closest primary election in Allen County Commission history. Daniels’ name was picked in a blind drawing after separate counts revealed Daniels was tied with Jim Mueller…