U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt spent almost all of Thursday in Iola, visiting with people at their places of work. On the list were Allen County Regional Hospital, the Allen County Sheriff’s Office, Iola Rotary Club,…

Iola Rotarians delivered 50 Thanksgiving boxes to the less fortunate Sunday afternoon. Boxes included fixings for a Thanksgiving meal, cereal, spaghetti and other food items, along with a $50 gift certificate to G&W Foods of…

HUMBOLDT — B&W Trailer Hitches hosted about 15 members of Iola’s Rotary Club for a tour of the Humboldt facility Thursday afternoon. Engineer Todd Eyster showed Rotarians around the mammoth 500,000 square foot factory floor,…

The Rotary Club of Iola is sounding the alarm over a concerning drop in participation in one of its service projects — Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program that once saw strong local support but…

Craig VanWey, the Kansas Department of Commerce’s manager for in-state business development, offered an overview of the department’s recent accomplishments and ongoing efforts at Iola Rotary Club’s meeting Thursday. A Parsons High graduate, VanWey joined…

Here are some of the stories about The Traveling Tom Exhibit, honoring the life of the late Tom Brigham: Tom had a very special relationship with Luka Kapkai, a native of Eldoret, Kenya, who teaches…

Iola Rotarians used their meeting Thursday to sort medical equipment and supplies donated by Allen County Regional Hospital. Some of it will find its way to the front lines of Ukraine. Since Russia invaded Ukraine…

In front of a full house at the Allen Community College Student Center this Thursday, Iola native Richard Zahn presented to the Rotary Club of Iola. His program, titled “Healthcare: Molecules and Medicines,” provided an…

Though they have returned to their normal routines, Iola students who recently attended a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp in Oklahoma, have brought their lessons back with them and are applying them to their lives. …