Filling the “opportunity gap” for students across the United States was the main focus at the state’s capital Tuesday when U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made a stop on his 10-day education bus…

Vada Aikins is frustrated. Join the crowd, said Commissioner Gary McIntosh at Tuesday morning’s Allen County commission meeting. Frustrations of many are what to do to merge county and Iola ambulances, an outcome that would…

Joan Morrison, 83, Moran, passed away Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, at her home. She was born April 11, 1929, in Kansas City, Kan., the only child of Earl Geraud and Angie Mae (Hunziker) Schone. Joan…

With this one trailing in the polls, Americans will see a new Mitt Romney emerge from the continuing flood of television commercials and, come Oct. 3, in the first of three presidential debates. As reinvented,…

Pioneer League 2012 Football Standings Team League Overall Prairie View 2-0 2-1 Iola 1-0 2-1 Central Heights 1-0 2-1 Wellsville 0-1 0-3 Anderson County 0-1 1-2 Osawatomie 0-2 0-3 Tri-Valley League Name League Overall Neodesha…

Allen Community College’s Red Devil volleyball team dropped an intense home match Friday against visiting Northeastern Oklahoma of Miami, Okla. The Red Devils went to Ottawa on Saturday and went 1-1 in matches. “It’s difficult…

Allen Community College’s soccer teams played three doubleheaders in five days. The Red Devil men went 1-1-1 while the women were 0-2-1. Allen’s women came close to their first win of the season Wednesday. They…

Kaden Macha, sophomore linebacker, front from left, and Alex Bauer, sophomore lineman, were selected as the MVPs for Friday’s Iola High football game against Coffeyville. The two were named as Iola’s award winners by the…

Following a disappointing run at the Burlington Middle School tournament on Saturday, Iola Middle School’s volleyball teams played at home Monday. Iola’s eighth-grade A-team battled Parsons to three sets but lost. Parsons won 25-17, 21-25,…

  Work on a new dog park took a substantial step forward last week when city crews added water facilities and a small walkway onto the site. City Administrator Carl Slaugh said all that remains…