Gary Millbern, Toronto, passed away at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 while a resident at Eureka Nursing Home. Gary was born Dec. 3, 1940, in Ottawa, to Gerald and Frances (Cooley) Millbern.Gary met Donna…

Roughly 200 children of all ages are in need of some holiday help this Christmas season.The kids’ wish lists have been made available through Adopt-A-Child, a long-standing benevolent effort spearheaded the past several years by…

HUMBOLDT — City administrator Cole Herder laid the groundwork Monday evening for an extensive street rehabilitation project intended to renew the nearly 25 miles of increasingly cracked, pot holed, patched, rutted and raveling roads that…

Sheriff Bryan Murphy filed for re-election to a second four-year term Monday.While the filing deadline is June 1 for the election a year hence, Murphy, 51, said he saw no reason to wait, since he…

Iola City Council members agreed Monday that North Kentucky Street should have markings to make travel safer.Just how many markings the street should have remains in question.Council members voted, 5-0, to put white lines along…

The football stadium in Riverside Park won out over improving sidewalks that lead to area schools at Monday night’s USD 257 school board meeting.Members agreed Monday night to contribute toward improving sidewalks as part of…

After opening the season with a quick 2-0 start under new head coach Todd Buchanan, the Allen Community College women’s basketball team has since lost its last two contests to fall to 2-2 on the…

After an 0-4 start to the 2014-2015 season, the Allen Community College men’s basketball team essentially needed the rest of November just to dig itself out of the hole and reach .500 again.This year, the…

When news is released on a Friday afternoon, you know it’s not good. Journalists refer to it as the Friday “news dump.” Bad news that politicians hope will get buried as people get out and…

Joy L. Houk, 79, rural Moran, passed away Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott.Joy was born Nov. 23, 1935, east of Chanute, the daughter of Clarence and Helen Louise (Tennis) Rinehart.…