Iola High School’s weeklong volleyball skills camp ended Friday for students in USD 257 elementary and middle schools. Here, Chelsea Lea, who will be an eighth-grader in the fall, practices setting the ball during a…

Mike Ford notes that “common” solutions are needed to ensure bicycle safety these days. “Common” as in common sense and common courtesy.Common courtesy makes travel safer for everyone, in a car or on a bike,…

Carl and Barbara Letsinger will be honored at a 50th anniversary celebration from 2 to 4 p.m. June 13 in the Little Theater in the Recreation Community Building in Riverside Park. Music will be provided…

David and Ruth Spangler, Moran, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. June 13 in Fellowship Hall at Moran Christian Church.Ruth Houk and David Spangler were married June…

Patrick and Rhodenia Rowe, Iola, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jessica Lynn Rowe to Derek James Robb, both of Gas, son of Timothy and Susan Robb, Iola.The bride-elect is a 2005…

Trinity United Methodist Church in Iola was the 4 p.m. April 24 setting for the wedding of Randi Hurlock and Logan Price, both of Salina. The Rev. Connie Smith performed the ceremony.The bride is the…

People get happier as they get older, a massive study involving 340,000 people seems to show.Maybe because they forget what makes them unhappy?Well, the study did conclude that the happiest folks that the Gallup people…

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York made a bold, but very sensible budget decision Wednesday. He told the city’s teachers their salaries would be frozen for the next two years so that it would not…

HUTCHINSON — Postenea Louisjeune capped her track career at Allen County Community College with a national runner-up spot in  high jump at the 2010 NJCAA National Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The national meet was…

Emily Middleton and Josh Honeycutt were at the 2010 NCAA Division II National Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend. Jackie Rogers competed in the 2010 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.All three are former…