Familiar faces in new places may be the theme in downtown Iola this summer. Not long after looking for a new location for her wellness studio, Rhoda Morrison found an ideal spot just down the…

A delinquent property tax sale will take place at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Allen County Courthouse.  Property owners have until the day of the sale to settle their accounts and keep their property, but…

John Simpson, Iola, was named to the Dean’s List at Barton Community College in Great Bend for the fall 2022 semester. To qualify, a student must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours…

Royce Smith knows a thing or two about soccer: playing goalkeeper and taking the field overseas.  The Iola native will head back to Sweden in March to begin another season of professional soccer, but this…

Iola native Royce Smith set a Swedish record for least goals allowed for his IFK Umeå Division IV south league professional soccer team this year.  Smith also took home the Goalkeeper of the Year award…

An empty lot just north of the National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion armory in Iola will soon become a parking lot, now that crews have removed the foundation of the old IGA grocery store, which…

Dear editor, The article about Iola Christmas lights had me harummping quite a bit.  It was known last year that the system was failing badly as lights were being pieced together then. But nothing was…

Area veterans are invited to a special dinner for Veterans Day. The “Veterans Day Mess Call” offers a night of dinner and music at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the North Community Building, 505…

Crews from Viking Industrial Painting, Hesston, worked as a team Friday to paint the exterior of the Oak Street water tower in Iola. The aging tower had been in need of renovations for several years,…

Jocelyn Sheets, age 64, died Monday, Aug. 22, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., where she worked as a copy editor and paginator for the Southeast Missourian. She previously had worked as a sports editor at the…