When Iola High’s 2012 baseball season ended in the Class 4A regional championship — the furthest the team had advanced in school history —  the Mustangs lost a number of talented performers to graduation.While head…

Having contended with miserable weather for much of the track and field season, Monday’s pristine conditions offered schools an opportunity to give some athletes some much-needed action at the Iola High junior varsity meet.It also…

Now this was the formula Vince Coons had been seeking.Playing their third game in 24 hours — following a 16-day layoff — Iola High’s softball team found its groove with the right arm of Mackenzie…

GARNETT — The skies stayed clear Tuesday, allowing Iola High’s golf team to play a second consecutive day.The Mustangs responded by claiming a league championship.The Iola golf team’s 311 at Garnett Country Club was six…

The fun began with the first pitch.Iola High’s Levi Ashmore blasted a line drive from Central Heights pitcher Jordan Horstick into the center field alley for a leadoff double, setting in motion a methodical —…

Dear editor, Couldn’t help but react to your editorial on soccer mishap to the brain. In 1955, Aug. 8, my head was hit severely in a rollover pickup accident, before seat belts. I felt a…

If hospital administrators could have a say, they would get down on their knees and beg Kansas lawmakers to approve expansion of the Medicaid program. If large employers such as Gates Corporation could have a…

Jack L. Collins, 80, of rural Cherokee passed away at 5:35 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013, at Via Christi Hospital, Pittsburg. He was born June 12, 1932, in Cherokee, the son of Jack Earl and…

Ruby Knapp Ruby I. Knapp, 88, Moran, passed away on Sunday, April 28, 2013, at Moran Manor. She was born May 4, 1924, in Moran, the daughter of LaMoyne and Bessie (Smith) Knapp. She graduated…

  Toby Shaughnessy is a man with a weight off his shoulders — for now.  At 2 p.m. Wednesday, he will break ground on his latest endeavor, an Italian restaurant called Sam and Louie’s that…