PARSONS — Iola High’s junior varsity tennis team had a good outing  Monday. Fillies’ tennis coach Jennifer Bycroft said she continues to see improvement in her players. Katie Lieurance finished third in the No 2…

JOPLIN, Mo. — Finishing fourth and seventh, respectively, Allen Community College’s men and women ran well under tough conditions at Saturday’s Missouri Southern’s Southern Stampede cross country meet. It was rainy and at times windy…

Southern Coffey County High’s Lady Titans fell twice in Lyon County League action Tuesday in Le Roy. They lost to Lebo 26-24, 25-17 and to Madison 25-17, 25-16. Sarah Webb put down 20 kills for…

Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade volleyball teams  split matches at home Tuesday against Anderson County Junior High of Garnett. The eighth-grade A-team rallied after losing the first set to the Bulldogs. The Ponies won 20-25, 25-11,…

Opening play at home in their new league, Iola High’s Fillies played better than last weekend. The Fillies came up short in one match but got the job done in the second one on Tuesday.…

Perfect running conditions on a flat course made for excellent times Tuesday in the 2012 Iola High Doc Stiles Invitational cross country meet. Iola moved its annual meet to the campus of Allen Community College…

For the fifth year in a row, Billie Collins wants to paint Iola pink. Collins is organizing Spirit of Pink fundraisers to benefit local breast cancer victims. Proceeds go to an assortment of needs, Collins…

Dorothy Ellis took the ride of her life Tuesday evening, courtesy of Glen Herschberger. The 92-year-old took a flight aboard Herschberger’s powered parachute. Herschberger gave Ellis a 20-minute ride aboard his little flyer, capping what…

The Environmental Protection Agency formally proposed Iola be included as a “Superfund” site to clear the way for federal funding to pay for another massive soil cleanup effort within the city. Superfund is the federal…

It was Windsor Place and Iola school officials who took a field trip Tuesday, to Topeka to hobnob with politicians and give the Kansas State Board of Education a look at the work being done…