Dan Willis stumbled upon an old election flyer the other day. It was an advertisement for his April 2015 run for a seat on the USD 257 school board. A checklist of his campaign promises…

Whatever the results of an April 2 school bond vote, USD 257 and its taxpayers will still grapple with facility costs. The age of existing school buildings — the youngest, McKinley, was built in 1949…

Members of the Happy Hearts FCE met Monday at the Community Building and heard a lesson on “Trash to Treasures.” The world is filling up with garbage, but recycling programs can help. Aluminum cans clutter…

The Iola Community Theatre’s production of “Avenue Q” takes to the stage tonight, starting at 7:30, before entering its final run next Friday and Saturday. This long-running Broadway musical, which features puppets as main characters,…

New Rules for Business Success will be offered at a two-day workshop, April 3 and 4, at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. The event is offered through Allen County E-Community, NetWork Kansas and the City…

Not all potting soils are created equally. Such was the lesson offered up Wednesday by Evelyn Lay at the Dirt Diggers Garden Club meeting. Lay presented the program for four members at her house. She…

Hazel Ebberts told Iola Sorosis Club members March 11 about growing up in her native England. Ebberts, a physical therapist as Allen County Regional Hospital, is the daughter of a chef and stay-at-home-mother, with two…

Small towns: where everybody knows everybody. The place where your kids walk to school, you invite your neighbors over for dinner, and you share a laugh with your friends watching your kids play t-ball. From…

Two large placards in support of a school bond issue are propped against the west wall of Shields’ Barber Shop, 19 N. Jefferson Ave. They’re good for starting a conversation about the April 2 vote,…

An otherwise normal Tuesday turned into a muddy mess for Humboldt?s David Gant. Gant, owner of D&D Propane, had sent one of his trucks out to make deliveries Tuesday in the midst of the latest…