Iola Street and Alley Department crews have begun preparing most of the city’s streets in the southwest part of town for chip-seal resurfacing.Workers began scraping, then sweeping, off debris from the asphalt surface, as well…

Eric Chavez gets paid to watch television.And city administrators hope that his TV viewing this month is boring and monotonous.Chavez, foreman with Ace Pipe Cleaning, Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., is in the midst of…

Charles Richard Chard, 84, died Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at Allen County Hospital in Iola. He was born Dec. 28, 1925, in Humboldt, to John Hubbert and Nina Chard.He was a World War II veteran…

This is just my opinion.We are a nation of gripers, spoiled rotten, over-indulged hypocrites.We want small government, but when a catastrophe happens we want it fixed by our government NOW. BP is a large corporation…

Russia’s crew of “illegals” arrested by the FBI this week were paid to be spies. Each of the 11 appear to be native Russians living in the United States with elaborate cover stories that kept…

Elena Kagan danced around all of the questions Republican senators asked about her opinions on politically sensitive questions as her Supreme Court confirmation hearing continued.Had she done otherwise the Senate should have disqualified her for…

HUMBOLDT — Go-kart racing has come to Humboldt Speedway in 2010.The past two weekends the newly formed track on the infield of Humboldt Speedway has brought out drivers in several age groups.Humboldt’s go-kart season was…

Saturday tennis lessons are being offered this summer at the tennis courts in Colborn Park, northeast of Iola High School. Holly Slawkowski, who is new to Iola, is the instructor offering the lessons through the…

ERIE — Iola’s Seahorses hit the water again in competition after a forced two-week layoff.Thunderstorms kept the Iola Swim Team on the deck of swimming pools in Fort Scott and at home the past two…

Clinton D. McHaley, 49, Humboldt, was treated and released from an area hospital Saturday after being involved in an altercation that led to him being attacked by a dog and then hit by a car.Melissa…