Month: September 2025

After facing some of the Three Rivers League’s best teams to open the season, the Yates Center Wildcats defeated St. Paul by a razor-thin margin, coming from behind to defeat the Indians 30-28 last Friday.…

Mounting injuries may have finally caught up with the Crest Lancers, who were unable to come back from a 38-point halftime deficit last Friday. The Lancers suffered their second consecutive loss of the season, falling…

The Allen Community College Red Devils picked up a pair of wins while competing in the Kansas City Kansas Community College volleyball tournament over the weekend. After opening the tournament with losses to Morton College…

Lehigh Portland State Park hopes to welcome its first official visitors next spring.  Kansas State Parks Director Connor O’Flannagan said work at Kansas’s newest state park was advancing at a steady clip. “Overall, we’re shooting…

I always look forward to the change from summer to fall. Although I’m sad to see my summer annuals begin to fade away, I do enjoy the fall scenery — mums, pumpkins, and the leaves…

The term “eagle-eyed” is brought about earnestly. Garry Crain and Bill Whinery of Operation WildLife (OWL) were at Iola Elementary School Friday to regale the students with a number of facts about the bald eagle.…

The Trump administration’s goal to expel millions of immigrants laboring in the food system will likely increase the foreign workforce in the U.S., experts said Thursday. The administration has said it wants U.S.-born workers to…

Saturday’s Moran Day celebration featured plenty of pomp, circumstance and a heaping helping of hometown pride.

Iola High School will crown its 2025 Fall Homecoming King and Queen on Friday, prior to the Mustangs’ football game against Anderson County.

A group of Spencer Ambler’s former employees – and current friends – gathered Saturday at Iola’s Pizza Hut to celebrate bonds that remain strong. Amber served as Iola’s postmaster from 1982 until his retirement in…