Tag: Iola
While most youngsters have yet to pick out their Halloween costumes, Teresa Gribble already has her sights set on Christmas. Gribble is teaming with Laura Tidd and Jennifer Coltrane to spearhead the 2018 Adopt-A-Child program.…
The regular monthly meeting of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club was called to order by President Annika Hobbs Oct. 1 at the Allen County Courthouse. Emilia Wilkerson led the club in the flag salute and…
Irving Berlin wrote some 1,500 songs, even though he could play piano in only one key and never learned to read music or transcribe it. Rose Marie Riley presented a program about Berlin at Mondays…
Before Republicans fell in love with Steve Watkins, he was not their favorite. Hes a charlatan, a fraud and an opportunist, said state Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, when the two, and five others, were pitted against…
Here is the reality of politics in Kansas: Johnson County now comprises fully 20 percent of the states population. Nearly 57 percent of the states people live in the six largest counties, Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas…
It’s the moment when a singer hits a note that sends chills down your spine. Or when an actor says his line with just the right punch or inflection. Those are the moments that only…
Both Iola High School and Iola Middle School jazz bands performed during the Jazz at the Bandstand event Tuesday downtown.
Former Iolans Anthony and Aubri Hanson consider themselves lucky. Their home withstood a direct hit from Hurricane Michael, which pounded the Gulf Coast with nearly unprecedented fury last week. The storm, which grew from a…
Members of the Iola Fire Department are putting on a different hat going from firefighters to fire-preventers as part of National Fire Prevention Month. The Fire Department has visited with more than 950…
Few issues split Kansas politics like the Obama-era expansion of Medicaid. Unlike 33 other states, Kansas still has not expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. Expanding Medicaid would pay for the health…
