Allen County commissioners joined an effort Tuesday morning to provide a fitness center for Moran. Thrive Allen County is preparing a grant application to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, seeking about $30,000…

Allen County Commissioner Tom Williams lit into fellow commissioners Tuesday morning, accusing them of excessively supporting what he termed is a disgruntled employee. Williams said a member of the countywide ambulance service had contacted commissioners…

Gold-tinted shovels turned the ceremonial first spades of dirt Tuesday for Iola’s newest housing complex, The Eastgate Lofts, on the site of the old Allen County Hospital in downtown Iola. “We’re celebrating a new neighborhood,”…

Iola native Sharon Ann Miller, 74, Garnett, died Sunday, April 24, 2016.   Funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m Friday at Holy Angels Catholic Church, Garnett. Sharon’s family will greet friends following the funeral…

A recycled rock effort may permit Iola city crews to continue their annual chip-seal maintenance work this summer, and at a much cheaper cost than originally forecast. Street and Alley Superintendent Dan Leslie gave City…

Judge Thomas Saxton, district magistrate judge and Iola Municipal Court judge for the past 27 years, is retiring. Saxton’s retirement was announced April 19, and accepted Monday by Iola City Council members. “Hopefully, I have…

The proposed LaHarpe-based career and technical education center excited the most interested conversation at Iola USD 257’s school board meeting MondaY. A handful of district personnel, including Superintendent of Schools Jack Koehn and board president…

LAHARPE — Chance are, a high school graduate can never miss a day of school, but still “can’t fix a lawn mower,” contends Ray Maloney. Learning a trade, whether basic small engine repair, carpentry, welding,…

Allen Community College mens soccer player Fernando Robles committed on Monday to continue his college soccer career at San Francisco State University. For Robles, a California-native, it is the opportunity to return home and play…

The Iola golf team entered this season’s Buck Quincy Invitational with a completely different mindset from previous years. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. The past couple of years, the Mustangs have rolled…