Members from eight chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution gathered in Iola Saturday to assemble table decorations for the State Conference next month. Chapters represented were: Where The Trail Divides, Oceanus Hopkins, Council…

The mercury dipped to six degrees above zero for the second time within a week here last night to set another late March low temperature reading. **** Iola’s “T-Men,” a volunteer group of local traffic…

Carlyle Presbyterian Church Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday was “With God in the Wilderness: The Lamp Stand” was taken from Exodus 25:31-40. The lamp stand provided light in the holy place. That’s a picture of…

All A’s Seniors: Dongming Eason Cheung, Calvin Delich, Maria Escobar-Hernandez, Cal Leonard, Lauren McDermeit, Diamend McFadden, Alex Moris, Kelsey Morrison, Adryan Nading, Breanna Northcutt, Sadrie Overall, Carlie Payne, Gabriella Richards, Paige Riley, Ella Taylor and…

March 3 was district selection day for the Southeast Kansas FFA district.  Several Iola High School students earned top honors for their proficiency applications. Proficiency applications are based off of the students’ SAE (Supervised Agriculture…

All A’s Fifth grade — Leah J. Carman, Collin S. Cook, Karoline R. Covey, Kamry M. DeLaTorre, Rylee J. Ellison, Connor M. Gray, Jase T. Herrmann, Lakyn T. Meadows, Thatcher J. Mueller, Carlie A. Weilert…

First Presbyterian Church was the site of this week’s Lenten breakfast. From left, Bill Mentzer, Marjorie Mentzer and Sharon Whitworth visit before the start of the breakfast.

Iola Middle School has announced its third-quarter honor rolls for 2019-20. Principal’s Honor Roll (4.0 GPA) Eighth grade — Rebekah Coltrane, Keira Fawson, Christopher Holloway, Rio Lohman, Abigail Meiwes, Jaydon Morrison, Jenna Morrison, Shelby Peters,…

An Emporia author who writes a series of detective novels inspired by his grandfather will be in Iola Thursday to talk about his work. Michael Graves is the author of the current Iola Reads book…

Darren McGhee gave the Communion Meditation at Colony Christian Church Sunday with “Folding the Laundry” from becomingcloser.org.  How is folding the laundry like Communion? Like doing laundry, Communion is done with ordinary things: wine and…