PARSONS — Iola Middle School’s girl’s basketball made it to the championship round in the Parsons Eighth Grade Winter Classic Saturday, but fell in a tough loss to Chanute.“The girls played so hard today,” coach…

GARNETT — Andrew Garber had a good week of wrestling, earning first place in the 182-pound division at the Anderson County Invitational Saturday.Garber went 5-0 on the day, to improve his overall record to 8-1…

Soldiers of the Kansas Army National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Iola, will not go to Africa next spring.According to a news release, the National Guard Bureau informed Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, Kansas adjutant…

COLONY — Christmas is quickly approaching but Crest Elementary School students aren’t worried. They have all of their Christmas shopping done.For the fourth year, Crest Parent Teacher Organization members helped students shop for their loved…

When Ann Shetlar graduated from Elsmore High School in 1966, she looked back with pride on being part of a high-profile sports tradition at the small school. The girls basketball team, of which she was…

You don’t get very far into a discussion of the labor shortage in Iola before the town’s lack of affordable housing surfaces.Iola has a fair number of available houses on the upper end. It has…

Orville Wesley “Bud” Rogers, 92, Iola, died Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola.Orville was born June 27, 1922, in Ericson, Neb., the son of Thomas Orville and Lillie Leota (Platt)…

Marion Lee Stoll, 91, Humboldt, passed away peacefully Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, in Hospice at Windsor Place Care Home in Iola.Marion was born Oct. 17, 1923, in St. Clair County, Mo., to John Frederick and…

Caroline Barnett Copening Ratcliffe, 67, Lexington, Mo., died Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at Research Medical Center Hospice in Kansas City, Mo.Caroline was born Sept. 9, 1947, in Iola, to Ruth and Lawrence Copening. She attended…

Julia (Stout) Shores, 83, Iola, died Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at Windsor Place in Iola.Julia was born June 15, 1931, in rural Erie, the daughter of John and Martha (Smith) Elliott. She married Orville Stout…