Revenue from ambulance runs is expected to come within about $30,000 of meeting Allen County’s $1 million obligation to Iola for provision of countywide ambulance service.Terry Call, who does billing and tracks daily ambulance statistics,…

Icy weather, coupled with the calendar, kept Iola city crews particularly busy Monday.As the first working day after Christmas, the city sent extra street and alley crews out with trash crews to help pick up…

A strong argument against privatizing the state’s prison system a couple years back was the lack of accountability, especially when profit is a motive to the organizational structure.The same doubts are cropping up with the…

Loy West, 87, Piqua, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, at Yates Center Health and Rehab Center.Loy was born on May 30, 1928 at Neosho Falls, the son of John and Esther (Hammond) West. He grew…

PIQUA — For the second time in a month, vandals left their marks on a Woodson County cemetery.Woodson County sheriff’s deputies were called to the St. Martin’s Old Cemetery, where somebody drove a vehicle onto…

Iola will receive a $59,320 grant to support activities preparing for construction of a pedestrian bridge spanning Elm Creek along South Washington Avenue.The grant, from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, was announced…

What started out with a “Hoorah!,” has been diminished to more of a “hey there,” at First Presbyterian Church’s Sunday Soups.Since late summer, the free meal has been reduced from every Sunday evening to the…

As I prepared the story about the Sunday Soups program for today’s paper I did so with an element of guilt.First Presbyterian, after all, is my church, but I’m not an active participant in the…

Time was kids could buy a package of baseball cards for a nickel or less, including a piece of bubble gum.Baseball was the only professional game of consequence from one end of the nation to…

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