As a young student, Amber Jewell held on to Fridays because that was the day school cooks distributed extra biscuits at lunch. “I was always so hungry and that gesture really impacted me as an…

It’s been two-and-a-half years since Sharla Miller lost her son, Matt, to suicide.   In that time, Miller has tried to make sense of her son’s decision by not only personally gaining a better understanding…

A Christmas concert at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center will go on as planned, but with a new act. The Sugarplums will replace Merry Country Christmas, after the group canceled its show because of scheduling…

A husband-and-wife author team will be in Iola on Thursday to talk about their book, “Squint.” The novel is the young adult selection for Iola Reads. Authors Chad Morris and Shelly Brown will speak to…

Rulings on two key points in the controversy over administration of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center were made today by District Judge Spencer Gard. He ruled the center was left in trust to the school…

In his three years at the helm of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, director Dan Kays is thankful that he naturally wakes up on the sunny side of the bed.  In the first year in…

It’s a new season with a new energy for the Iola Area Symphony Orchestra. Raúl Munguía, director of orchestras for Pittsburg State University, is the Iola orchestra’s new conductor, replacing longtime conductor Gregory Turner of…

A couple of improvement projects at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center  — something fun and something long overdue — took center stage at the Iola school board meeting Monday night. Director Dan Kays shared the…

The one that got away. We all have someone in our past who makes us wonder how different our lives might have been, “if only.” But, “time only goes in one direction.” Such is the…

It’s a scene we’ve all seen: The hero floats down a raging river toward a waterfall and certain doom. Imagine watching something like that for the first time, in a movie on a big screen,…