If weather cooperates, the Veterans Memorial Garden on the south courthouse lawn should be well along its way to completion for ceremonies to honor veterans Nov. 10. Dirt work began this week. Alana Kinzle, who…

Allen County Clerk Sherrie Riebel announced today her office will remain open until 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday to allow advance voters extra time to cast their ballots at the Allen County Courthouse for the…

Steven Henderson hadn’t given much thought to throwing his hat in the ring and seek a seat on the Allen County Commission. At 22, and in town barely long enough to meet his neighbors, Henderson…

Within the past couple of years, many Kansas counties implemented Operation Red File — a source for emergency medical information.   Now is the time for Neosho, Bourbon, Allen and Woodson counties to review their “Red…

  70 Years Ago October 1948 Final agreement on a football game here Armistice Day between the Pittsburg State College reserve team and Iola Junior College was reached in a meeting of the Armistice Day…

DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) vs. Donald D. and Susan H. Diebolt, et. al., mortgage foreclosure Tania G. Jackson vs. Darnell A. Jackson, protection from abuse…

Five or six inches of rain — in places more — over the last several days have swelled the Neosho River and its tributaries over their banks. For farmers, even those hardened by years of…

In deference to this week’s rain and swollen streams, Allen County Commission Chairman Jerry Daniels encouraged Sheriff Bryan Murphy to research naval assets for his department. The recommendation came during a short  commission session Tuesday…

MORAN — Both Laura and Jeff Johnson grew up with an appreciation of living in small towns. The Johnsons, this year’s farm marshals for the upcoming Farm-City Days, spoke about their fondness for all things…

It was like finding a diamond. As construction workers scraped decades of plaster from an interior wall upstairs at 15 E. Madison, a long-hidden architectural detail began to emerge: a huge brick archway in the…