Both Cherokee and Timberlake saw season-ending losses in the state semifinals last weekend. The Cherokee Chiefs lost to the ...

Students and adults alike have questions about this great country we call the United States of America. Each year South ...

Following the November election, Kiowa City Administrator Ty Piper congratulated newly elected Mayor Garrett England and newly elected councilmember Dylon Molz on winning the election. Both men ...

As of midafternoon Tuesday, no races had developed in school board filings for Alfalfa and Woods Counties. Only one candidate filed in each district except for Cherokee where none had filed. For ...

At the regular meeting of the Cherokee Board of Education, members voted to approve a new Facility Use Policy that will provide better access to the gym for students who want to practice outside of ...

At their regular Monday meeting, Alfalfa County commissioners Mike Roach, Nate Ross and Garret Johnson, along with County Clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger, worked their way through routine paperwork, ...

Marcia Lynn Failes was born March 31, 1945, in Wichita, Kansas, to Paul and Ruth Puttroff. She went to be with Jesus on November 28, 2025. She grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, while her dad got his ...

Alva School Superintendent Jeremy Brashears will remember Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. That's the day an HVAC unit located south of the high school gyms caught fire and filled the entire school building ...

Burlington Board of Education President Terry Graham called the November meeting to order with all board members present: Lindsey Callison, Robert Hill, April Kisling and Callie Pray. Superintendent ...

At Carol Anderson’s specific request a private family service was held December 3, 2025, at Pleasant Plains Cemetery in Mount Ayr Township in rural Osborne County, Kansas, which is near her birth ...

If it hadn’t been time to open six-month bids, the Board of Commissioners meeting for Woods County might have been canceled Monday, Dec. 1. As it was, the meeting lasted three minutes. Chairman Shane ...

Services will be Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 11 a.m. at Marshall Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Carmen City Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at ...