Former Iola resident Pauline W. Cole, 73, died Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in Muskogee, Okla. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Wright-Brown Family Funeral Home in Coweta, Okla. Funeral services will…

Catherine (Kate) Emert died at the home of her daughter on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Kate and her family moved to Iola in 1961. She worked at H.L. Miller & Son and then was office…

America’s junior colleges would be put to work training students for high-tech, well-paying jobs under an $8 billion initiative proposed in the administration’s 2012 budget.  Allen County Community College may not benefit from the initiative.…

Gabby Ruiz, Allen County Community College freshman, lowered her national NJCAA Indoor Track Championship qualifying time by 14 seconds in the women 5,000 meters at last Saturday’s Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa. Ruiz has…

Winter’s first significant snow fall ended the Iola Middle School boys’ basketball season. The Pony teams were scheduled to play at Pittsburg Community Middle School Monday but the games were canceled because of the wintry…

BURLINGTON — Sophomore Jacob Rhoads is in his first season of wrestling. He is on the Iola High wrestling team as a varsity starter at 145 pounds. Rhoads had to miss several varsity meets because…

Above, Maranda Spillman of Diamond Daisy prepares a floral arrangement Monday, one of dozens of orders the flower shop received. Spillman and eight other Diamond Daisy staffers worked late into the night to ensure all…

Keeping the Iola Municipal Pool open past Labor Day would be a costly venture, Iola City Council members were told Monday. Recreation Director Luke Bycroft spelled out why, including the difficulty in finding staff to…

Iola City Council members were urged Monday to continue the city’s relationship with a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Iolan Jim Gilpin spoke about the benefits Iola has received over the past several years by hiring…

A new dog park will be built on South Chestnut Street in Iola. In a fitting illustration of just how divided opinions are of the dog park, city councilmen were themselves evenly split 4-4 on…