With a new school year approaching, families attended enrollment events for Iola schools Wednesday and Thursday at Iola Elementary School.

Starting next week, area schools will begin enrollment for the 2024-25 school year.  New this year, state legislators passed a law during the last session that allows families to enroll in the school of their…

It’s sometimes difficult to discern who is learning more from this summer’s Extension District programs: The teachers or the students. That’s the benefit of life lessons. We’re never too old to learn. As a recent…

A quest to learn about local healthcare needs brought together about two dozen Allen County residents with representatives of the Kansas Health Institute Tuesday evening at the community building in Riverside Park.  KHI is a…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda…

Iola students can continue to eat free school meals next year.  USD 257 school board members approved a request from Staci Talkington, food service director, to continue the free meal program. “Last year, I wasn’t…

COLONY — Crest Middle and High School students making the honor roll for the second semester are as follows: All A Superintendent’s Honor Roll: Sixth grade: Dillon Fermyn, Jay Pearish, Haylee Powell, Kroy Walter; Seventh…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley students qualifying for the second semester honor rolls are: All As Third grade: Olivia Barker, Liam Blevins, Brynleigh Borth, Koltyn Endicott, Lucas Owens, Faith Stinnett, Lainey Taylor, Riley Tynon Fourth grade:…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley middle and high school students making the honor roll for the second semester are as follows: Dean’s List Sixth grade: Daniel Allee and Maya Ulrich Seventh grade: Clara Ferguson, Tayleigh Forman,…

Laura Caillouet-Weiner remembers walking down the hall at Jefferson Elementary School as a student teacher in the spring of 1981. Then-Principal Richard Sears stopped her and asked, “What are you going to do next fall?”…