GARNETT — The Iola Middle School girls basketball teams played at Anderson County on Tuesday night.  The combined seventh and eighth grade JV team took a 14-10 loss while the varsity seventh graders also lost,…

BURLINGTON — The Iola Middle School volleyball team finished in sixth place at a league tournament in Burlington on Saturday. The Mustangs competed against Prairie View, Anderson County and Santa Fe Trail.  Iola began the…

City of Humboldt and Allen County road crews lay down chip and seal on Eighth Street in Humboldt on Tuesday morning. The county’s road repair efforts have been challenged this summer because of equpment breakdowns.…

A group of about 18 landowners from Allen and Anderson counties voiced their opposition to a transmission line project that will cut across Southeast Kansas from the Wolf Creek power plant to Missouri. Property owners…

The legal drama surrounding Kincaid farmer — and Kansas gubernatorial candidate — Arlyn Briggs took an additional series of twists and turns, with the 64-year-old back in custody. Briggs, in fact, has been arrested twice…

Area athletes put on quite a show Tuesday for the inaugural Marv Smith Invitational, hosted by Iola High School. From a breathtaking 200-meter dash, in which the top three finishers were separated by .04 seconds,…

COLONY — There were no injuries in a house fire in downtown Colony Monday afternoon. Volunteer firefighters from Colony, Garnett, Welda and elsewhere in Anderson County converged and were able to douse the fire in…

A single tree was standing. Tall grass was swaying in the wind as Isaac Reeve led his rented horse across the expanse of southern Anderson County. He’d set out from Colony around 1873, searching for…

Colony Christian Church’s men’s group, Men on Fire, and the Anderson County chapter of the Kansas Livestock Association provided a meal for Crest prom attendees. The Crest students were not able to raise money for…

Allen County’s positive coronavirus cases continued to increase this past week, but at a slower pace.  The county reported eight new cases for a total of 112, according to a weekly report from the Southeast…