First-graders enter the library at Iola Elementary School on a mission. It’s a Thursday morning, and they have just 45 minutes. The 80 or so students head straight to one of dozens of Chromebooks, ready…

The Iola Public Library will bring in the Thanksgiving holiday with games aplenty next week. The library is hosting Game Day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, with patrons of all ages invited to…

Iola Elementary School student Cayleigh Rutherford gets a ride in a slingshot driven by owner Bill Hobbs last week. Rutherford was the first IES student to read books about each of the 50 states and…

ST. MARYS — Pottawatomie Wabaunsee Regional Library is decorated for the holidays, with a snow-filled tiny Christmas village placed in the center of the book stacks. There’s a princess mural on one wall, complete with…

Auri McFadden-Knock, a fourth grader at Iola Elementary School, fell in love on Thursday. The object of her affection was Remy, an 8-month-old Labrador retriever brought to the school by the Allen County Animal Rescue…

In “Because of Winn-Dixie,” a young girl rescues a scruffy dog that wrecked a grocery store. It’s a story about second chances, grief and loss, loneliness and friendship. It’s also Iola Elementary School librarian Daryl…

Who doesn’t love a ghost story? Iola Reads and the Iola Public Library will offer spooky stories through the end of this month, with a storyteller, a youth book selection and even a haunted library. …

One of the core values of the Iola Public Library is to engage with the public.  Lucky for us, April provides us with lots of opportunities to do so. The calendar is chock full of…

Playing with a child is an involved process — you just don’t realize it.  But peel back the layers and you see the building blocks for emotional stability being laid and verbal and motor skills…

The “Library Littles” program launched last month at Iola Public Library will be held virtually at 10 a.m., Dec. 16 due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.   The library program is for preschoolers…