Month: September 2016

Saturday’s 70th annual Moran Day celebration featured fun, food and family activities all day long, amid glorious weather conditions. Above, Bob and Janet Houk were celebrated as parade grand marshals. At bottom left, Adelina Holloway…

During August 92 people were shot dead in Chicago neighborhoods, among 1,300 shot and killed or wounded since Jan. 1. Many of the wounded will have debilitating effects for months, years, even a lifetime. According…

Less than a week after she contracted pneumonia, Hillary Clinton was back on the campaign trail. If she’d had it her way, we’d have never known she was sick. Hillary contended her persistent cough was…

MORAN — As area residents prepare today to celebrate the 70th Moran Day festival, a gathering of 4-H’ers will help celebrate their club’s 70th year of existence as well. The Prairie Rose 4-H Club, organized…

A search for illegal drugs earlier this week took longer than law enforcement officials expected, Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said. The search, as reported in Thursday’s Register, began Monday at Humboldt High School, followed…

Last week, Tracy Keagle began installing the first of many miniature lending libraries, which will be placed at various points around the county. Inspired by similar lending libraries she encountered in Chicago, Keagle figured that, in…

WELLSVILLE — When Tayton Driskel broke through the Wellsville line and bolted forward for 12 yards on the what was left to a chewed up, muddy field in Wellsville, Iola coaches, fans and players got…

MORAN — The Marmaton Valley volleyball program picked up another win over Southern Coffey County on Tuesday.The Wildcats beat the Titans in straight sets. They  won the first set 25-17 and took the second set…

The Mustangs responded to a Week-One loss in Chanute with a convincing 25-7 victory over Prairie View last week.This week, the Mustangs have an even bigger opportunity to open the eyes of the Pioneer League…

At the time, skeptics called it a shell game.Kansas would borrow $1 billion to prop up its pension program on the assumption interest earned with the additional infusion would cover its debt service.That was in…