MILDRED — While the fiddle player sawed off the dizzy opening notes of Bob Wills’ “Take Me Back to Tulsa” on the stage in the back room, Charles Blagg was browsing the refreshments cooler up…

A delinquent property tax sale on Thursday morning added another $130,000 or so to the county’s budget and brought 56 properties back onto the active tax rolls.  More than 100 potential buyers attended Thursday’s sale…

Knowing that in a few years’ time thousands of tourists will be flooding the new Lehigh Portland State Park has a few Iolans anxious about how well-prepared the area is to not only absorb the…

Mark Griffith, Allen County’s road and bridge director, is frustrated with a delay in dust control efforts. Griffith hired a Kansas City company to spread calcium chloride on some local roads to control dust, but…

HUMBOLDT — The secret to chainsaw carving, according to Chauncey Poe of Altamont, is to remove all the wood that doesn’t belong. “I look at a log and I can see the animal inside it,”…

Lehigh Portland State Park will become official on July 1, Linda Lanterman, director of Kansas State Parks, told Iola Industries members and their guests Tuesday evening.  Lanterman was the guest speaker at the annual meeting…

More than 60 youth ages 4-12 are taking part in Moran Vacation Bible School activities this week at Moran’s Christian and Methodist churches. This year’s theme is “Stellar,” with an emphasis on celestial phenomena as…

Iola artists Max Grundy, wife Candice and daughter Church are nearing completion of a mural on the side of a building in downtown Iola. The trio worked in league to apply a base coat of…

Iola City Hall will be closed to the public from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 15, for scheduled electrical maintenance.  This closure is for the utility, administration and code enforcement offices, the Iola…

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced it is providing all Kansas households free, at-home COVID-19 tests through June 15. The tests are available through the Project Access COVID Tests (or Project ACT) program,…