Iola American Legion Post 15’s Indians dropped a doubleheader to Baldwin Tuesday night.Baldwin won the opener 8-2 with a five-run fourth inning. Iola had scored twice in the third to get within one run, 3-2.Chris…

BELOIT — Marmaton Valley High’s Skyler Houk and Southern Coffey County High’s Chyler Ludolph  played for the East All-Stars in last Saturday’s Eight-Man Division I All-Star football game.The West scored two touchdowns and had two…

Jenna Sigg, Allen County Community College freshman, received more postseason honors in softball.The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) announced its 2010 Louisville Slugger/NFCA NJCAA Division II All-America teams recently. Sigg, the Red Devils’s third baseman,…

5-7 p.m. — IPD Bike rodeo, Riverside Park.5:30-7:30 —  Farmers Market, west side of the square7 — Vision Iola meeting, New Community Building7:30 — Ice cream social, courthouse bandstand8 — Iola Municipal Band concert, bandstand

Prominent at the corner of North Jefferson Avenue and East Jackson Avenue are a number of wood-framed garden beds. The garden, established last year by the Allen County Jail, is lush with growth that is…

Now Afghans can change the subject from war to building an economy without poppies.Monday’s front page news was that U.S. geologists have confirmed that Afghanistan has enormous untapped mineral wealth. It can be a major…

Lydia Lance, who will be a junior at Marmaton Valley High School in the fall, won two gold medals and state championship titles at the  Missouri Trampoline and Tumbling State Championships, May 1.She won one…

If the more than 200 people gathered at tables listened to all three featured speakers at Tuesday’s 2010 SEK Catbackers dinner, they heard how difficulties, hard times and disappointments make people and teams stronger.And conferences…

Southwestern College science professor Rick Cowlishaw and department chair Pat Ross will share their knowledge of aquatic life as they tour several different Kansas towns this summer.On Thursday, Cowlishaw will be in Iola at the…

The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Rory Foster for the murder of Briawna Hardrick in her east Iola apartment in 2006.He was sentenced in July 2008 to 50 years in prison without…