Month: June 2018

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dr. C. Ellis Potter, a 1967 graduate of Southern College of Optometry, where he earned his Doctor of Optometry degree, and a longtime optometrist in Iola, recently delivered the commencement address at…

Brothers Levi, Blake and Noah Ashmore scramble around an empty baseball field that’s still lit up at night for a crowd that’s already made its way out after a sweep by the Iola Indians that…

It’s hard to say what brought the Post 15 Indians to dropping nearly 40 runs in two games on Garnett Thursday night. It could’ve been the Muddogs’ pitching but the two teams had played two…

Incoming Iola senior baseball player Derek Bycroft was invited to The Topeka Capital-Journal’s inaugural Best of Kansas Preps Award Banquet on Tuesday. The Mustangs pitcher wa shonored as one of 600 of the best student…

There’s something for everybody today. The Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs fishing derby begins at 8 a.m. at Abbott’s Pond at the intersection of Miller and Cottonwood. “Walk With a Doc” begins at 9…

Mikkal Alexander Clark-Jones, age 10 weeks, passed away June 11, 2018, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola, Kansas. Mikkal was born on March 30, 2018, in Chanute, to Mason Jones and Harmony Rose Clark-Jones. Mikkal…

DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: Richard Verdin vs. Westar Energy et. al., other civil State of Kansas ex rel DCF vs. Serena M. Murrouw, other domestic Sandra Ingram vs. James K. Ingram,…

A rosier picture In an article Thursday about what homeowners could expect to pay if a new elementary school were approved, it was mistakenly reported that the cost of a $25 million bond issue would…

At Week’s End No wonder people living in Central America are wont to make feverish efforts to migrate to the United States, to the extent of crossing arid land fraught with danger and illegally across…

As something of a newcomer to Iola, Shilo Eggers says that her four years in the business community provides her with a vantage point on the community. Her take? “We have some work to do.”…