Farm City Days, USD 257 and Humanity House are presenting to the students of Iola and Humboldt the Serious Comedian, Keith Deltano, who will be addressing bullying, cyberbullying, and resilience.  In Humboldt, the assembly will…

I intend to vote for the school bond issue on April 2, and here are my reasons why. The current high school building was completed in 1916, 103 years ago, at a cost of $100,000.…

Morgan Dieker experienced culture shock the first time she walked into a chemistry laboratory at the University of Kansas. “The whole lab was indescribable. The equipment was different, things I’d never seen before,” she said. …

(Editor?s note: This is the second article in a series related to the April 2 USD 257 school bond referendum. To read the first one, click here.)   Jon Miller, a senior at Iola High…

Students in local schools participate in safety drills about twice a month because of a new state law that requires 16 drills during the school year, officials say. Some worry the increased drills do more…

Think of soil remediation at the proposed elementary site as a five-pronged approach, says USD 257 Board of Education president Dan Willis. The process involves SJCF Architects, a firm working for the school district; the…

Groups that use the Bowlus Fine Arts Center could get a bit of sticker shock later this year, in the form of a change in rental rates. For some groups, that could mean hundreds of…

This is the first in a weekly series of articles on the proposed school bond issue to be decided by voters on April 2. When Dr. Charles Wanker, chief of staff at Allen County Regional…

More than a year ago, the first meeting of a steering committee to study USD 257 schools brought together dozens of residents with different ideas on what was needed. They seemed to sort themselves into…

Marv Smith moved to Iola in the fall of 1966 to teach at what was then a state-of-the-art science building, shared by Iola High School and Allen County Junior College. He stayed for the people…