Three times on Tuesday morning, Allen County Commissioner Bruce Symes reached in and pulled a name out of a metal bucket decorated with a U.S. flag to determine the outcome of last week’s election races.…

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…

The Marmaton Valley High School KAY Club held its 7th annual “Trick Or Treat So They Can Eat,” on Friday, Oct. 27. The MVHS KAY Club members and officers “trick-or-treated” around town for an hour…

Marmaton Valley High School KAY Club students promoted Red Ribbon Week the last week of October.  Each day began with the Morning of Champions where high school athletes and KAY Club members greeted elementary students…

Kim Ensminger, superintendent of Marmaton Valley school district, predicted two years ago that Moran would need more child care options.  The town has only two daycare providers. Both are at full capacity. So Ensminger approached…

MORAN — Darcy Burton confesses she’d given little thought to city governance until a little more than a year ago. The impetus? Burton, 37, took on a new job, as an administrative clerk assistant in…

MORAN – One of Moran’s strengths is its city employees, Joe Stotler contends. But with longtime workers Mike Stodgell and Craig Miller nearing retirement age, it’s incumbent on the Moran City Council to choose wisely…

MORAN — The way Lee Roberts sees it, he attends enough Moran City Council meetings on his own. He might as well do it as a voting member. Roberts is one of five candidates seeking…

Prairie Rose 4-H Club of Moran promoted 4-H during National 4-H Week at Marmaton Valley.  Members wore their club shirts on Tuesday, Oct. 3.

District Judge Daniel Creitz, center, speaks to a smattering of residents in Moran about an upcoming vote on proposed renovations and expansion to the Allen County Courthouse. County voters will decide the fate of the…