ARMA — Well, we’ve seen it before, but just not in the lifetime of this sportswriter or any member of the 2016 state-bound Humboldt Cubs volleyball team.In 1989, the second-seeded Cubs upset Southeast (Cherokee) in…

Editor,Let me understand — you visited with Hope Unlimited, which resulted in your recollection of a sexual incident, 40 years ago — in school, and somehow you relate that to Trump; is that the conclusion…

In what is hoped was a backhanded compliment, Rep. Peggy Mast, R-Empor-ia, last week lauded the works of Adolf Hitler, mastermind of the slaughter of 6 million men, women and children. “His words are profound!”…

    A gaggle of people walked through the old Iola Theater Saturday night, catching up on refurbishing of the building. They were treated to popcorn from the old theater’s machine and other snacks. In the…

Progress continues across the county on a series of projects set through a Community Engagement Grant project that kicked off in the summer of 2015.Representatives from Iola, Humboldt, Moran, LaHarpe and Elsmore gathered Thursday for…

This is the second installment in a two-part series looking at an “average” small-operations farm in Allen County. Earlier this month an article highlighted the Covey family’s system of farm-to-table poultry. Today, peanuts. TENNESSEE RED…

Paul R. Scheibmeir, 85, of Iola, passed away Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola.Paul was born on May 27, 1931 at Neosho Falls. He was the first of two sons born…

Iolan Emma Gilmore and Bryan Nardo of Shadyside, Ohio, announce their engagement and pending marriage. The couple will be married May 27 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Bellaire, Ohio. The bride-to-be is the daughter…

He was 6’4”.  I’m not. He weighed 250. I don’t. He was a college professor, I a student. He molested me. I came away feeling lucky to be alive.  It could have been so much…

An old farm friend had a saying for every occasion. When he could put a chore off no longer, it was “nut-cuttin’ time.” That’s where we are with this year’s election, nationally and very much…