The Iola Public Library is looking to turn a little-used asset into a gift for the community. Just out the library’s back door is the Flewharty-Powell Annex, the home of the late Nancy Flewharty and…

Area youth had to wind and find their way through Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Maze on Friday evening at the Iola Public Library. The maze was offered as part of the library’s annual Halloween event, also…

The Friends of Iola Public Library volunteers were hard at it Thursday morning putting donated items in place for the annual Friends Book Sale. The fundraiser for the library began Thursday evening and runs from…

Iolan Stan Grigsby usually has two responses when somebody asks him about astronomy: “Look up, and look it up.” Grigsby, a retired physicist and instructor, spoke to roughly 25 or so Iolans at the Iola…

The Iola Public Library will host a solar eclipse event on the front lawn Saturday, Oct. 14 at 11 a.m. The partial eclipse begins here at 10:20 a.m. and reaches magnitude at 11:45 a.m. when…

“Let Freedom Read” is this year’s theme for Banned Books Week, which takes place Oct. 1-7. Banned Books Week is a time for the Iola Public Library and libraries across the country to champion everyone’s…

The Iola Public Library will look at how Kansans contributed to a civil rights movement for the LGBTQ community Saturday. The library will host speaker Brandon West to discuss “Pride: From Stonewall to Small Town…

Jim Correll, retired director of the Fab Lab at Independence Community College, addressed a small but captive audience Thursday evening at Iola Public Library.  Located at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the college’s…

The dog days of summer still have some bite. An ongoing heat wave is expected to push temperatures into the triple digits through much of this week, with heat indices approaching 120 or beyond in…

“If you can do good, you should.” Sharon Moreland, director of the Iola Public Library, appreciates the sentiment shared by iconic musician and entertainer Dolly Parton. She and Jane Works of Humboldt traveled to Overland…