70 Years Ago October 1948 Final agreement on a football game here Armistice Day between the Pittsburg State College reserve team and Iola Junior College was reached in a meeting of the Armistice Day…

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Paul Davis says he’s frustrated, but he doesn’t really show it. Sitting at a wooden desk in his campaign office in downtown Lawrence, the bespectacled Democrat matter-of-factly states that he’s irked by…

40 Years Ago September 1978 Milo poured into waiting trailers from a combine west of Iola Thursday as Gordon Conger harvested the grain from an experimental plot. Forty-seven varieties of the feed grain from seven…

Thinking back on that sweltering July day, Sharon Whitworth couldn’t help but recall a similar scene more than 46 years ago. A group of friends, family and other volunteers from church were helping Sharon clear…

Employee levels within Iola’s city operations will be under the microscope over the next few months. City Council members over the past several meetings have pushed for a full study of the city’s workforce, asking…

It’s hard to say no when you’ve been offered a shot at your dream job. Miranda Peters did so, twice. It was mostly out of loyalty, and other reasons. Peters, who grew up gazing at…

There’s much to be said about teaching a room full of first-graders, Emilea Peine noted. “I like seeing them get it,” she said. “I like it when you know they’ve learned something and their eyes…

McKenzie Buttron’s college experience prepared her for teaching music to students of all ages, from preschool through grade 12. But it didn’t prepare her for the first day of classes last week at Jefferson Elementary…

WASHINGTON  (TNS) — The Trump administration is poised today to unveil a sweeping rewrite of emissions rules for power plants that would be a boon to the coal industry, laying the groundwork for a revival…

In eight days, GOP voters will choose their nominee for governor, and it’s an intriguing four-person race. No, not the Colyer, Kobach, Barnett, Selzer contest, although those names are on the ballot, along with a…