Allen Community College’s baseball team dropped four games to Highland this weekend.On Saturday, ACC lost the first game of the four-game series, 15-14. Down 15-11 heading into the seventh inning, the Red Devils came up…

NEVADA, Mo. — Allen Community College’s softball team swept their doubleheaders against Cottey College on Saturday.Allen won the first game 11-1 by scoring at least one run in each of the five innings. Ashley Womack…

INDEPENDENCE — Iola High’s boys tennis team’s season continued at Neodesha’s tournament in Independence on Saturday.Isaiah Fawson played as Iola’s no. 1 singles player. He went 1-2 on the day. In his first match, Fawson…

Dear editor,Virginia Macha is one who believes in her endeavors 110 percent. As I have seen her on her quest for the USD 257 school board, it is yet another confirmation of her commitment to…

Allen County dropped in its health rankings for 2015, negating the last couple of years of upward trending.We are now ranked 87th of the 101 counties surveyed in Kansas, down from 79 for 2014. It…

Local athletes were selected to All-State basketball teams this past week.Iola’s Sydney Wade, sophomore, received an honorable mention for her play in Class 4A-II by both the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Wichita Eagle.Wade helped lead…

Iola High’s boys tennis team hosted its only home matches of the year against Columbus, Independence and Parsons on Thursday.Isaiah Fawson played as the team’s no. 1 singles player, filling in for Colby Works, who…

Junior Girl Scout Troop No. 70323 completed a pair of ambitious projects Thursday.The first was clearing out trash, debris and fallen leaves from the pocket park on the east side of the courthouse square.The Scouts…

HUMBOLDT — Seven of the eight at-large candidates for Humboldt school board appeared before a crowd of about 50 Thursday night. The forum’s lone absentee was incumbent Sandra Whitaker.The event — which allowed the audience…

LAHARPE — Sharon Allen still isn’t sure if she’ll be able to salvage her home, badly damaged early Tuesday in a fire caused by a bolt of lightning. Allen’s home wasn’t insured, so she has…