CHICAGO — Forget Wall Street. Jim & Steve’s Sportscards in Waukegan may have had the hottest initial public offering Wednesday:  the Topps 2021 Series 1 baseball cards. Collectors grabbed $149 boxes filled with 24 packs…

When Tasha Goddard’s pipes froze at her house this weekend, she didn’t call a repair company. She called her girlfriends. Alexis Laird and Tessa Borjon jumped into action. They traveled to the store to pick…

Kansas might be frozen, but it’s not yet a cold enough day in tax-cut hell for some Republicans to repent. Last Tuesday, as temperatures outside fell to cattle-threatening single digits, a majority of Republicans in…

Local youth play in a snowbank at Iola Middle School, while a custodian shovels a sidewalk nearby. Temperatures dipped to -17 this morning, according to a sign at TLC Garden Center, LaHarpe.

Many people believe that memory loss and aging go hand-in-hand.  That would assume that as a person gets older his or her memory begins to fail. While some change may be expected as you age,…

By Donna Houser In the 1950s, North High School played in the Ark Valley league because there were only two high schools in Wichita, besides one Catholic school.   My mother or father always took…

Approximately one year from now, the world’s athletes are expected to gather for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in a country that the U.S. government officially considers to be engaged in genocide. That country, China,…

By Jeremy McGinnis FIRST PLACE In the summer of 1996 I came to Iola, to start training for a soccer scholarship I earned at Allen Community College. To make some extra money and to get…

The monthly meeting of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club was held Feb. 1 via Zoom. “Teacher” and “veterinarian” were some of the answers for the roll call,  “What you want to be when you grow…

By Chelsea Buck Travis and I have known each other since grade school. We originally met at Harvest Baptist Church in Iola. We unknowingly had a crush on each other for years. We became high…