Iola was either mere inches or a missed call at the plate — depending on who you ask — away from going 2-0 against Independence on Friday night at Riverside Park. Instead, they settled for…

The Fillies dropped a pair of games to one of the top softball teams in the area on Friday and for the first time this season, coach Chris Weide has changed the defensive alignment of…

Fifty years ago, on April 17, 1966, Mel and Phyllis Nelson were married. Friends and family are invited to pass along well wishes and share stories April 16 at the Dr. John Silas Bass North…

It was a close call for Parsons. More than 200 good-paying jobs were on the line. “We got complacent,” said Monte Taylor, president of Great Southern Bank in Parsons and a member of the city’s…

In the early 1990s Steve Orcutt and I took Frank Hemphill to Kansas City for dinner and a game at Royals Stadium. The occasion was a retirement party for a Humboldt High science teacher and…

Iola code enforcement officer Shonda Jefferis is resigning her post. Jefferis, who has been with the city since July 2012, has accepted a position with Transystems, Corp., a firm that deals with engineering, design and…

The Iola Community Improvement Task Force/PRIDE Committee and Sam and Louie’s restaurant are teaming up for a fundraiser Sunday to benefit the football stadium at Riverside Park. From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., 15 percent…

EUREKA — The Humboldt High and Yates Center High boy’s track teams had a good idea which teams were going to be toughest going into Thursday’s Eureka Invitational. (Each other.) The two schools traded individual…

MORAN — A late rally kept Marmaton Valley High’s softball squad on the winning path Thursday in their first game against Yates Center. Marmaton Valley scored two in the sixth and three in the seventh…

MORAN — Yates Center High got plenty of sterling pitching in the first game of its doubleheader at Marmaton Valley Thursday. Then, the visitors’ bats came alive in the second. Yates Center’s sweep of Marmaton…