It was hard to tell who carried the bigger smiles Thursday. The handful of youngsters getting to try out the new indoor playground equipment at Iola?s First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood St., were squealing…
Iolan Renee Cooper called Thursday afternoon to warn locals that it appears scam artists are at work. Cooper said she has been called twice in the last month asking for large sums of money in…
Plucky children traveling on the Mississippi experiencing the tapestry of life as it existed then could this be Huckleberry Finn? No, its This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, but Twains classic is the…
The Iola square is on track to look like a Charlie Browns Christmas tree if more people dont sign up to adopt a tree. Last year we had 60 or more trees decorated. The downtown…
Iolas Boy Scout Troop 55 will offer a chicken noodle dinner Sunday to raise money for outdoor and camping experiences. Dinner will be served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Dr. John Silas…
Dave Lindstrom, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate representing Kansas and an ambassador for the Kansas City Chiefs, will visit Iola at 1 p.m. Saturday at the ICT Warehouse Theater, 203 S. Jefferson. Lindstrom…
Free dental services are available to area veterans for the month of November at Iola’s Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, 2051 N. State St. It’s the clinic’s way of honoring veterans and active-duty military…
MANHATTAN Clara Wicoff, a senior at Kansas State University and a former Iolan, was awarded a Co-Bank Outstanding Student Scholarship through the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center and the Department of Agricultural Economics at KSU.…
Jennifer Nielsen, author of A Night Divided, a story of a girl and her family divided by construction of the Berlin Wall at the onset of the Cold War, will talk about her book Tuesday…
Third grade students at Lincoln Elementary School took a field trip to the Lehigh Trails System Friday. Trails developer Randy Rasa talked about how the local environment has changed over the years and efforts to…