The Iola Middle and High school bands performed a variety of holiday-themed numbers during a concert on Monday evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. The bands are under the instruction of Brandi Holt.

(Note: Macie Hoag is a senior at Iola High School.) One of my favorite Christmas memories over the years was in 2012. I would have been seven years old and obsessed with Barbies.  Probably everything…

GARNETT — The Iola High wrestling team finished in last place with only two wrestlers competing at the Anderson County Invitational on Saturday morning.  The Mustangs scored 22 points between Wyatt Westervelt and Korbin Cloud.…

RICHMOND — The Iola High boys basketball team played their best defensive game so far this season to knock off Santa Fe Trail at the Central Heights tournament Friday night, 43-39.  The Mustangs (2-2) outrebounded…

RICHMOND — The Iola High boys won their first game of the season but the girls lost Thursday night in the Central Heights High tournament.  The Mustang girls (1-2) dropped their second game of the…

Three teenage girls twist wrenches and peer inside the engine of a Chevrolet Malibu on a Friday afternoon at the Regional Rural Technical Center at LaHarpe. They’ve replaced the engine. Now, they need to finish…

RICHMOND — The Iola High girls basketball team won their first game of the season, defeating Central Heights, 43-31. The Iola boys lost to Central Heights, 60-45, due to a lack of rebounding and missed…

BURLINGTON — The Iola High wrestling team began its season at the Wildcat Duals in Burlington on Friday evening.  The Mustangs had a somewhat rough go of it with the team dropping five matches against…

Too many turnovers and bad rebounding. That’s what Iola High boys basketball team’s head coach Luke Bycroft believes got the best of his team in a 61-54 blunder to Anderson County in their season opener…

The Iola and Humboldt High wrestling teams are hitting the mats to begin their season this week.  Both schools sent wrestlers to the state tournament last season and remain the only two schools with wrestling…