Iola High School’s Class of 2015 — recognized Wednesday at a Senior Awards Night ceremony — has set a lofty academic bar for successive classes to follow.Principal Stacey Fager pointed out a pair of the…

Scott Hendrix, 45, Colony, passed away on Monday, May 4, 2015.A celebration of Scott’s life will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Garnett Church of the Nazarene in Garnett. Burial will follow in…

PLEASANTON — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s track team’s season came to an end at the Tri-Valley League Meet at Pleasanton on Tuesday. The seventh-grade girls finished second and the eighth-graders finished in third. The seventh-grade…

HUMBOLDT — Softball is undefeated at Humboldt High this season. Not only is the varsity team undefeated, but also the junior varsity Lady Cubs finished a perfect 10-0 season.Humboldt defeated Burlington at home on Tuesday…

Humboldt High’s golfers saw action at two tournaments this week.Robbie Sellman won the Neodesha Golf Tournament at Sycamore Valley Golf Course on Tuesday. He shot five under par, finishing with a 67. He beat Fredonia’s…

COFFEYVILLE — The winning streak continues. Iola High’s golf team won the Coffeyville Golf Invitational on Tuesday to extend their regular season winning streak to 11 going back to last season. They are now 6-0…

INDEPENDENCE — Originally, the Iola High track team was scheduled to go to Burlington on Tuesday. Instead, they traveled to a make-up meet in Independence. It turned out to be a good decision.The varsity girls…

For the past 40 years Iolans have bemoaned a lack of adequate housing and how this has held back our growth. In 1979, an article in the Iola Register quoted Gil Brown, an executive with…

A “parental custody” issue sparked a Code Red alert Tuesday afternoon after two children were reported missing.Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said officers spent several hours searching for Dylan and Izabella Marlow, 8 and 7,…

Iolans are invited to vote on their favorite pieces Thursday at Iola Middle School’s annual art show.The art work has been set up in the IMS commons area, and will be open to the public…