John and Patty Dick, Yates Center, and Mike and Beth O’Halloran, Hesston, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Elizabeth Dick, Yates Center, and Chris O’Halloran, Hesston.The bride-elect graduated in May 2010 from…

Hayley Mock and Joshuah Emerson, Joplin, Mo., are planning a June 18 wedding at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Ark.The bride-elect is the daughter of Chris and Rhonda Mock, Berryville, Ark. She will graduate…

Former Iola residents Robert and Pat Barkdoll, Galesburg, Ill., celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary Saturday through Monday in the Chicago, Ill., area.Robert Barkdoll and Patricia Lin Thornton were married June 4, 1971, in the Wesleyan…

Kendall and Billie Call, Iola, are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary today. Kendall Call and Billie Brewington were married June 10, 1951, in Mildred. The couple have five children and 34 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Jay and Sharon Thyer were married June 11, 1961, at the home of the bride’s parents, Nelson and Wilma Whitcomb, in Kincaid. The couple will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday.After his discharge from…

Iola teams are forming for this fall’s Allen County Youth Tackle Football Leagues. Sign-up for the Iola teams is Monday.The youth tackle football teams are for incoming students in third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades.…

WELLSVILLE — Iola American Legion’s AA Indians had little trouble collecting wins seven and eight of the summer season Thursday.The Indians rolled past host Wellsville 10-1 in six innings and 9-0 in five innings.Ryan Latta…

Dear Editor, Maybe the county should have considered maintaining, correcting and preserving the present hospital. The design was for upward expansion. Maintenance issues should have been ad-dressed and corrected.New hospital, a thorn in the side…

Dear Editor, After reading Wednesday’s paper concerning the new hospital, it came as no surprise that there is all kinds of debris in the soil. I told one of the persons in charge of the…

To Allen County commissioners and hospital trustees: I think it is time that the powers to be should realize that the land in east Iola where they want to build the hospital is in bad…