Georgia Roberts of Iola became worried last week when her sister, Nellie Obendorf of Idaho, didn’t arrive for a promised visit. Obendorf, 65, and her 71-year-old husband Orville, were trapped in snowdrifts as high as…

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 68 and have prostate cancer. I had PSAs, an MRI and a biopsy. My Gleason score was a high 7. No genetic testing as I can recall. My urologist said…

HUMBOLDT — A trip to an air show for his birthday made quite an impact on Cooper Woods. Woods was in the eighth grade when he saw the spectacle of the gleaming aircraft soaring overhead.…

St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 206 S. Walnut, has completed a three-year renovation of the church and parish hall building. The congregation will have services for the first time in the renovated church on Palm Sunday,…

Neosho County Community College hosted a welding competition at the Regional Rural Technology Center in LaHarpe on Friday, April 8.  NCCC hosted 52 participants. Three NCCC adult students and 49 high school aged students competed.…

Dear Carolyn: I’ve always heard, “Men are guests in their own houses,” from the old wives I know, and try as I might to resist gender stereotypes in my own life, this one seems to…

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband is one of five brothers, all born in the 1940s. Their father died of Parkinson’s disease. Three of the five brothers have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and/or Lewy body dementia.…

One of the core values of the Iola Public Library is to engage with the public.  Lucky for us, April provides us with lots of opportunities to do so. The calendar is chock full of…

“Handie Talkie” portable radios are available to the police and fire crews, one in each department. The devices, widely used first by the Army, permit two-way communication for a range of seven miles. A man…

The revised ordinances of the City of Iola, as prepared by Spencer A. Gard, attorney, become effective April 1. T. E. Shanahan, city clerk, collaborated with Mr. Gard in preparing the volume. Perhaps the most…