Give local folks a good cause and they respond in droves.That occurred Saturday when LaHarpe VFW Auxiliary and Iola American Legion members set up shop with a bake sale outside Walmart. The goal was to…

Alvin Bernard Westerman, 84, Iola, passed away Saturday, June 17, 2017, in Chanute.Alvin was one of seven children born to Bernard and Anna (Link) Westerman. He was born on Nov. 18, 1932, in Iola. Alvin…

Dennis Howard Crowl, 64, Paola, passed away Saturday, June 17, 2017, at Brookdale Rosehill Skilled Nursing Facility, Shawnee. Visitation is Friday at Dengel & Son Mortuary-Crematory, 605 O’Neal Ave., Osawatomie, KS, 66064.  A memorial service…

Dale Dean “Pappy” Sandlin, 74, Gas, passed away Sunday, June 18, 2017, at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.Dale was born Dec. 19, 1942, in Port St. Joe, Fla., to Dayton Dale and Francis…

Thirty area youngsters participated Friday in the K-State for Kids Day Camp sponsored by the Southwind District and Allen County 4-H Council, at Riverside Park in Iola. Zoey Rinehart, Extension Summer Intern, prepared the activities…

LAHARPE — A planned power outage in LaHarpe, originally set for Wednesday, has been pushed back a week.Crews plan to cut power to LaHarpe from noon to 4 a.m. June 28 to accommodate repairs to…

Be sure to get your boogie-woogie to the Allen Summer Youth Theatre’s production of “Jump ‘n’ Jive Juliet,” a big-band take on “Romeo and Juliet,” which pits the rivalrous families in a jitterbug faceoff in…

Customers shopping for affordable fashions on Madison Avenue this August may sense a bit of Deja Nu. Affordable Fashions Consignment, at 106 S. Washington Ave., is relocating and morphing into a new store named  Deja…

A cut fiber optic line disrupted telephone service across the state Monday, including several Allen County institutions.Affected were Allen County’s 911 dispatch center, Allen County Regional Hospital, Allen Community College and local AT&T customers.The outage…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Speedway celebrated and crowned its Midseason Points Champions on Friday night with a lightning-fast race track that demanded all the horsepower drivers could find. In Whelen All-American Racing Series Modifieds, Nevada, Mo.’s…