The Iola Municipal Pool will be closed to the public Friday and Saturday. Iola Swim Team is hosting the 2010 SEK Swim League Championships Saturday. The closure Friday is to ready the pool for the…

With news that the Haldex Brake plant in Iola will close its doors later this year — cutting 155 jobs from the community’s work force — city officials have taken preliminary steps to determine how…

You could call Saturday’s makeup swim meet between Iola Swim Team and Cherryvale the start of “Swim Week” for the Iola Seahorses.The Seahorses have another makeup swim meet at Fort Scott tonight. Then the team…

Drake Sell of Sonic Drive-In was the recipient of the 2010 Iola Recreation PeeWee League’s Gary Wille Award. Each team nominates a player representing hard work, dedication and good sportsmanship. Each nominee receives a Gary…

The progress of Berg Manufacturing to today’s Haldex is worthy of William Hogarth, the artist who told the story of “A Rake’s Progress” in eight celebrated paintings in 1754. Hogarth showed how Tom Rakewell dissipated…

Mayor Bill Maness hit all the right notes in his comment on the impending closing of Haldex Saturday.Time spent bemoaning the decision to chase cheaper wages in Mexico is time wasted, he said. The plant…

In what can be described only as voter apathy, just a handful of residents attended Saturday morning’s candidate forum.Candidates or their entourage far outnumbered those they came to sway. The four-hour forum at the Iola…

Jerry Dixon, 73, of Garnett, died at his home, Friday, July 16, 2010.Funeral services were this morning at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Garnett. Burial followed at Garnett Cemetery.Memorials may be made to the Jerry…

Dorothy Mae Stotler, 90, Greene, Iowa, died Friday, July 16, 2010, at the Rehabilitation Center of Allison, Iowa.A funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Reid’s Funeral Chapel, 519 N. First St., in…

Bethena Baker, 84, of Garnett, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, at Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett.She was born in Moran on Oct. 25, 1925, daughter of Samuel Ernest and Elizabeth (Boggs) Fowler. She was…