Month: May 2022

With an eye on the postseason, Allen Community College’s baseball team worried more about health and readiness than on collecting wins Saturday. Visiting Johnson County had no such concerns, rolling up a combined 31 runs…

CHANUTE — It only took until the waning days of the regular season, but Iola High’s track team finally was able to compete in something other than miserable weather Friday. “It was nice to see…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The first telephone call Jill Biden made from her black SUV after an unannounced meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart inside the embattled country was to her husband, President Joe Biden. Biden…

LA CYGNE — Iola High’s golf team ended a two-week, weather-induced hiatus Friday with a trip to Lamont Hills Golf Club in La Cygne for the Pioneer League Championship. Leading the charge for Iola was…

KYIV, Ukraine — With international pressure mounting and his invasion of Ukraine failing to make significant advances, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a strident speech Monday at an annual military parade in Moscow, accusing the…

TOPEKA — Ecologists at Kansas State University are outfitting Flint Hills grassland cattle with tracking collars to create a virtual electronic fence capable of creating a protective buffer for fragile streams and ground-nesting birds. The…

What is your favorite place to eat?  Members of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club answered Home, El Charro, Chipotle, Casey’s, Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse, and Cheesecake Factory at the May 2 meeting.  It was Parents…

Sage Barney was offered a choice not often afforded to high-schoolers her age. See, her family had been living in Michigan, but moved to her grandparents’ house in LaHarpe in the fall of 2020, when…

Power outages can be inconvenient or devastating.  A prolonged outage can leave you with a refrigerator and freezer full of spoiled food.  Many assume power outages are covered by their homeowners insurance, but vary between…

Happiness takes work, Becky Carlson told Allen Community College graduates Saturday. Carlson, whose hall of fame coaching career included earning her 500th career win earlier this year with Marmaton Valley High School, was tapped as…