Finishing up the regular season at home, Iola Swim Team’s Seahorses hosted Fort Scott’s Hurricanes Wednesday at Iola Municipal Pool in Riverside Park. The Seahorses held their own in home waters.Iola has a little over…

Change is here. With the switch to the “Weekender”, I’m working to find how things on the sports pages fit.One thing is this column, which appeared for years on Fridays, is now going to be…

Matt Sauri doesn’t toss around the term “American hero” often.But he has no trouble giving that moniker to his traveling partner, Kevin Mincio, an Army veteran delivering on a promise to an old friend.Mincio and…

Anyone wanting a behind-the-scenes perspective of Hollywood’s media industry will have their chance Saturday night when actress and author Tina Marie Griffin tells all at the First Christian Church.Griffin, who starred in syndicated shows such…

Youngsters attending HAPPY, an acronym for Heritage Arts Pastime Projects for Youth, summer day camp were intrigued as Jean Johns walked her saanen dairy goat into the Iola Public Library’s Flewharty-Powell annex’s backyard Monday morning.“What…

The local school district is losing between $50,000 and $120,000 a year in bad debts.That’s the hard truth. Perhaps a more palatable way of saying it is that the district has a very charitable school…

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Two area men will be competing in the 2011 World Horseshoe Pitching Championships in Monroe, La. The two-week event begins Monday and ends July 30.Dave Mathewson, Gas, and Neil Hartwig, Humboldt, are members of the…

CHANUTE — Kansas Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) and Tourism is holding a hunter education class this weekend at the KDWP office, 1500 W. 7th, Chanute.The class is 6-9:30 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 5…

Missoula Children’s Theatre is returning to the Bowlus Fine Arts stage with its adaptation of “The Little Mermaid.”Deep in the salty waters of the Sassafras Sea, there lived a little mermaid. She and her three…