The 78th Annual Moran Day festivities will kick off this Saturday with a variety of events and entertainment. Vendors and food trucks will be set up beginning at 8 a.m., Saturday. At the same time,…

It’s all about time management. Iola High School band students agreed the ability to effectively manage their schedules allows them to participate in multiple, demanding activities.  Half of this year’s band members also compete in…

Allen County Commissioners signed off on a grant application Tuesday that will go towards paying emergency management salaries. Jason Trego, emergency management director, said the application is submitted yearly. Last year the county received “about…

In late July, Allen County welcomed new Road and Bridge Director Jeremy Hopkins. He has served as the interim Road and Bridge Director since late-March after the former director, Mark Griffith, resigned. The 47-year-old Wichita…

The 57th Annual Elsmore Day festivities took place Saturday.  Martin Henderson, the sole remaining Elsmore Ruritan charter member from when the club was formed in April 1967, sat in front of city hall Saturday awaiting…

The Bowlus Fine Arts Center celebrated its 60th anniversary Saturday evening with a dinner, reception, live and silent auctions, and a concert featuring the Canadian tribute band Abbamania. The event drew a full house. The silent…

HUMBOLDT — The ponds were dug more than a dozen years ago. Saplings planted in neat rows, waiting to be landscaped. The dreams, meanwhile, piled up, spilled over, crowded out and demanded action until Joe…

Iola veteran Bill Shirley remembers something Sen. Jerry Moran once said to him about what it would take to bring a Veterans Administration clinic to Iola: “It’s the Kansas way. We take our time.” Indeed,…

Iola High School students — and their parents — will need to do a little more to prepare for their future if they want to graduate, thanks to new state requirements. Most students already meet…

HUMBOLDT — Though Humboldt residents Rex Heape and Greg Kaufman attended Monday’s council meeting with the purpose to complain about what they feel is runaway spending, they perhaps left feeling their local tax dollars are…