SABETHA — Sabetha High School’s football stadium was crammed with football fans near and far  for Friday’s Class 2A state quarterfinal showdown between Sabetha and Humboldt High. Sure, almost all of them were there to…

Monday was Jared Wheeler’s first day on the job as Thrive Allen County’s new economic development director. He’s stayed busy. “Someone asked me if it felt like I was drinking from a firehose,” said Wheeler…

Archie Specht, who served with the U.S. Army in Korea and died in 2015, was posthumously awarded the Ambassador for Peace proclamation from the Republic of Korea, arranged by Chief Warrant Officer Nick Hay of…

“Rockabilly” is the original rock-and-roll, according to Lee Rocker. “It started, arguably, in the 1950s. It’s really a combination of blues and country, with rhythms that are just purely an American form of music,” he…

The High School District Honor Band Clinic will be on Dec. 2. They auditioned in person on Nov. 4.  The Middle School District Honor Band Clinic is on Jan. 27. They competed by submitting an…

For as long as there’s been war, there has been a need to comfort those who fight it. The horrors of the battlefield, the inhumanity and pain, they stay with soldiers. Enter chaplains, whose existence…

Archie Specht didn’t talk much about his military service during the Korean War. Whatever his stories were, they were lost when the Piqua native died in 2015 at the age of 86. That doesn’t surprise…

Humboldt astronomer Mike Myer captured this view of a waning crescent moon and Venus surrounded by clouds on Wednesday evening.

Allen County voters overwhelmingly rejected Tuesday a proposed $9.95 million bond issue to renovate the Allen County Courthouse. Of 2,510 advance and election ballots counted, 1,897, or 76%, were against the measure. Such huge margins…

View dozens more photos of the performance here. “Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination,” Willy Wonka entreats his eager guests. Iola High School’s drama department takes it from there…