INDEPENDENCE — Iola Middle School’s golf team won by 18 strokes Monday at the Independence Middle School golf tournament.The Ponies posted a 160 team score with Independence at 178. The nine-hole tournament was played on…

CHANUTE — No team titles for Iola High Monday at Chanute High’s junior varsity track meet. That’s all right by IHS head track coach Marvin Smith who saw the Mustangs and Fillies show improvement in…

Free breakfasts and lunches will be provided to children living in USD 257 again this summer.Cost will be about $33,000, with the lion’s share coming from state and federal sources, Dr. Craig Neuenswander, superintendent of…

Marvin Smith’s hunger pangs came at an opportune time Monday night.When Smith went to retrieve a sandwich he had left in a refrigerator in the home economics classroom in Iola High School’s science building, he…

HUMBOLDT — A new office manager and court clerk for the Humboldt Police Department will be hired soon.Humboldt City Council members approved a new job description for the police department at their council meeting Monday…

Community Blood Center’s blood drive will be in Iola from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the North Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye. Community Blood Center services Allen County Hospital’s blood supply.“When individuals normally think…

There will be lots of sparkling, dangling decorations “When the Stars Collide” at the Iola High School junior/senior prom this year.“The custodians are putting up wires for us to hang about 300 stars,” said high…

HUMBOLT — Members of Humboldt’s school board last night got a bit of good news: this year’s budget will be a little thicker, thanks to increased enrollment. About $84,000 will be added to the budget,…

USD 257 board members reviewed again Monday night cuts they might make in the district’s 2010-11 budget, but won’t take action until they know what the Legislature will do with school finance.USD 257 has lost…

MORAN — Members of the Marmaton Valley USD 256 Board of Education are one step closer to closing a significant budget gap for the 2010-11 school year, although further cuts or property tax increases still…