Month: May 2018
Major League Baseball: Red Sox 5, Royals 4 BOSTON With the sun beating down on an 86-degree Wednesday afternoon in Boston, the Royals all stood with their backs to home plate as they watched…
High School Golf: Iola Mustangs The Iola golf team felt the brunt of the windy conditions on Monday at their meet in Coffeyville. Grant Luedke finished on top with a 105 followed by a 107…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) State police say drivers clamored to pick up cash on an interstate in Indianapolis after the back doors of a Brinks armored truck swung open and hundreds of thousands of dollars flew…
A record number of Iola High School seniors 23 completed a more intensive course of studies, earning the distinction of Kansas Scholars. The curriculum requires students to take more science, math and foreign…
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer will be in Iola for about 30 minutes Saturday afternoon as part of a swing through southeast Kansas. Colyer will be at the Iola Public Library starting at 5 oclock to…
The Iola High School FFA dairy cattle judging team won a state championship earlier this week in Manhattan. Team members, with instructor Amanda Strickler, from left, Casen Barker, Elka Billings, Jillian Keller and Brody Nemecek,…
Not many folks can learn about their familys genealogy at a local museum. Edward H. Funston III, a grandnephew of Iolas Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, came to Iola Wednesday to research his familys history on…
High School Track and Field: Iola Mustangs and Fillies BURLINGTON It had been at least four years since any Iola varsity track team finished first in a meet. On Monday, the Fillies scored 95…
Bessie Mae Mathews, age 79, of Moran, passed away Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at Moran Manor. Bessie was born April 30, 1939, in Mapleton, to John C. Lucas and Bertha M. Brown Lucas. Bessie graduated…
High School Baseball: Iola Mustangs History happens every day. Granted, most of it is small and inconsequential but it happens. And sometimes, even witnesses to said history have a hard time seeing it for what…
