Iola City Council members will take another look at a number of long-standing issues when they gather for their regular meeting Monday. Mosquito spraying, which was disbanded this year following several debates about the practice’s…

I was glad to learn Iola commissioners are re-evaluating whether to put $155,000 of insurance money toward a new floor in the recreation building in Riverside Park. Now that it has flooded three times in…

Iola is tapping the brakes for its plans to reopen the Recreation Community Building this summer. Recent flooding at Riverside Park once again sent stormwater runoff into the building, which has been closed because of…

Whew! Glad the rain has stopped before contractors are due to give a final once-over of the needed repairs and replacement of a floor to the Recreation Community Building. Now that we know we’ll never…

If all goes well, the Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park could be open by mid-June. Iola City Council members accepted a pair of bids Thursday to replace the building’s floor after it was flooded…

If all goes well, Iola’s Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park will be ready for the public by early summer. Iola City Council members are expected to look at bids April 22 to redo the…

Iola will pay the architectural firm advising USD 257 with its ongoing bond referendum $3,000 to help map out repairs to the flood-damaged Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park. Mayor Jon Wells cast the tie-breaking…

Iola city officials will decide on a strategy in the coming days for the Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park. The building has been shuttered after its floor was damaged due to flooding in October.…