Sometimes being bull-headed about being right proves an act of folly. Gas council members may be on the verge of such a mistake.In 2001, Gas negotiated a contract with Iola to purchase water. A part…

HUMBOLDT — Through most of the first half the Lancer girls’ basketball team controlled the game against Erie in the first round of the Emprise Bank Basketball Tournament in Humboldt on Tuesday.The Lancers never trailed…

HUMBOLDT — The Crest boys’ basketball team’s search for an identity continued on Tuesday night with a 44-25 loss to Erie in the first round of the Emprise Bank Basketball Tournament in Humboldt.“We have the…

HUMBOLDT — Cub girls’ basketball coach Aubrey Jones came into the season with an advantage that almost no one in the state can match. The Cubs returned their entire team from a year ago.The Cubs…

HUMBOLDT — Rayce Hoepker’s night didn’t get going the way he wanted, but by the end of it, he had 34 points and his Humboldt Cubs had a 70-44 victory over Uniontown in the first…

Jan Knewtson has had a retail presence on the Iola square since 1986 and for the last 16 with her Sophisticated Rose on the southeast corner of the square at Madison and Jefferson. Knewston credits…

At a time when the mutterings around town concern the hollowing out of Iola’s commercial square, the young couple behind Ele’ Nails — the square’s newest business — see in their brightly lit Madison Avenue…

On Dec. 7, 1941 — 75 years ago today — Japanese torpedo planes and bombers attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war…

LA CYGNE — The Iola Ponies hit the road on Monday when they traveled to La Cygne to face off with the Prairie View Buffalos. Iola eighth-grade varsity point guard Hannah Gardner’s stellar performance sparked…

The Iola defense was able to tout stars on every level of the unit this season and those stars were rewarded with All-State honors from Kansas’ two largest newspapers.Senior linebacker Chase Regehr was a 4A-II…