Tag: Iola KS

Life in Iola of 80 years ago will be featured at Tuesday’s spring meeting of the Allen County Historical Society. The meeting’s centerpiece is an 18-minute video, a 1940 colorized 16-millimeter film that  recently has…

It?s not often students are compared to goldfish and teabags. Paul Miller tied the seemingly random topics together in a memorable keynote address Wednesday at Iola High School?s National Honor Society induction ceremony for 19…

A local trails enthusiast wants to use an Anderson County prairie preservation site as a model for an area at the Lehigh Portland Trails.  The Anderson County Prairie Preserve, just north of Welda and bisected…

Two Iola elementary school students received honorable mention for safety posters they designed for the Kansas Farm Bureau Safety Poster Program. Sydney Hayes, a second-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, and  Michaela Riebel, a fifth-grader at…

Iola Public Library has scheduled several adult programs for May. The Intrepid Readers book discussion group will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday to cover  “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. A seven-hour 1986 fire at…

Lincoln Elementary School fourth-graders grew potato vine plants over the winter, part of a classroom project and donated the plants Friday to the Iola Community Involvement Task Force/PRIDE Committee. The fourth-graders, from left, are Keaden…

TOPEKA — Iolan Taelyn Sutterby is one of 23 Washburn University students recently inducted into Phi Alpha social work honor society.  Eighteen of these students are in the master of social work program; five, including…

The Anniversary Day Luncheon of Unity Club was Monday at the Gen. Frederick Funston Meeting Hall. The luncheon was hosted by the committee of Flo Haynes, Donna Houser, Mary Joseph and Juanita Tolle. Rookies provided…

Allen County Regional Hospital continues to share information with Saint Luke’s Health System in a move toward a possible lease agreement.  Much of the information shared has been financial, ACRH Board of Trustees chairman Loren…

Allen County Commissioners accepted a $5,250 bid from Whitworth Construction for renovation of the entrance near the courtroom and a bid for $732 from TLC Garden Center for the installation of two evergreen trees and…