A tennis camp for girls and boys of all ages will be June 28-July 2 at Iola High School’s tennis courts on  East Monroe Street.The camp runs 8-10 a.m. each day. Fee is $20 per…

Shortly after midnight on July 10 — 105 years after “Mad Bomber” Charley Melvin used 1,500 pounds of dynamite to blow up three illegal saloons on the west side of the courthouse square — Thrive…

Dale Stafford can envision converting what today is little more that trees and weeds into an inviting fishing and camping area along Elm Creek.Stafford, a consultant with Landworks Studio, joined Carisa McMullen and Holly Powers…

Rick Cowlishaw gets all a-tizzy over the smallest things. And we do mean small.Cowlishaw, professor of biology at Southwestern College in Winfield, was in Iola Thursday to show a dozen and a half young Iolans…

The public can be let in on more of the data being used by the Hospital Facilities Commission in its quest to determine whether Allen County Hospital should be replaced or remodeled.Mary Ann Arnott, commission…

Neama Marie (Ball) Douglas, 93, died Tuesday, June 15, 2010.She was born June 2, 1917, in  Neodesha, to George and Nellie (Johnson) Ball. She began piano lessons at age eight and was cooking, cleaning, sewing…

Jeanetta Marie Womack, 82, of Bowling Green, Ky., died at Tuesday, June 15, 2010, at her home.She was born May 19, 1928, in Riley, to Alfred and Evelyn Beck. She was a homemaker and member…

Shirley P. McGrew, 81, of Iola died Tuesday, June 15, 2010, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola.She was born Sept. 21, 1928, in Iola, to Paul and Imo (Burger) Wright. She grew up in…

Speaking on prime time from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama repeated what he has said about the government’s all-out effort to stop the flood of oil spilling into the Gulf and repeated his determination…

Josh Honeycutt, who just finished his junior year at Emporia State University, has his sights on the 2010 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.Honeycutt is a three-time NCAA Division II national meet qualifier in the…