The townsfolk of Petrolia will soon be able to sleep with a little more ease knowing they will be receiving a storm warning system from their fellow Allen County town of Mildred.  Last month…

  Sometime in the late 1950s, while tacking together yet another wooden window screen in his Kansas City shop, Gerald Myers envisioned the future. He saw the day when mass-produced aluminum windows and doors would…

The road to the pigtail championship ran through Utley’s Auto Body Monday night as the young ladies in pink managed to put together two strong games.The semifinal game was a display of strong pitching from…

  Doug Kerr, Iola High’s new head football coach, has been pleased with the work of players in the summer weight lifting and conditioning program. Kerr arrived in Iola at the beginning of June and…

Gertrude Mechnig, 101, Garnett, passed away July 1, 2012, at Anderson County Hospital, Garnett. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Moran. Burial will follow in Moran Cemetery.…

David W. Troxel, 54, Moran, passed away June 29, 2012 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. David was born April 24, 1958, in Iola to Wendell and Willa Troxel. He graduated from Shawnee Mission North High…

  Friday’s rally on the statehouse grounds in Topeka involved mostly Catholics protesting the recently upheld Affordable Care Act because, according to Gov. Sam Brownback, it would require people of faith to “violate their beliefs…

Gas City Superintendent Steve Robb, from left, works with volunteers John and Chris Becannon of LaHarpe Sunday evening to lay a curb around what will be a spray fountain at Fees Park in Gas. The…

  When Stephanie Mott was young she always felt there was something different about her. With time, she concluded she was a young girl trapped in a boy’s body.  Mott, now 54 and formerly known…

The Iola Register debuts its new website today. Designed by Paul Sombke, the Register’s graphics wizard, www.iolaregister.com in its entirety will be free to the public for the month of July. “We’ve found that more…