Numbers crunch. That’s a phrase heard a lot these days. Everybody is crunching numbers.Schools are crunching numbers.Humboldt High School’s football program is under the numbers crunch. Rumors have been swirling around the area about the…

Nearly a decade into its mission, one Iola nonprofit group can proudly say it has made the lives of many and the community they live in a better place.Since September 2003, area residents with disabilities,…

Iola’s Take Charge! Challenge team gained some ground on its competition Thursday night after 60 people listened to USD 257 Superintendent of Schools Brian Pekarek lay out his vision for making Iola schools as energy…

Preliminary enrollment figures for Allen County Community College are encouraging, college trustees were told Thursday.Following a one-year drop in enrollment — 2010 was the first year the college had lost students after 10 consecutive years…

After having been a fact of sports life hereabouts for years, in the late 1960s adult-level town-team baseball gave way to slow-pitch softball.Stu Butcher, Chanute Tribune editor who cut his journalistic teeth writing sports, penned…

Between hammering out an operating budget for 2012, replenishing Iola’s depleted water utility fund and working in step with a governing body that’s been in office all of four months, Carl Slaugh has quite a…

Jerome Joseph “Jody” Wille Jr., 71, of Iola died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, at Allen County Hospital in Iola.Jody was born Oct. 23, 1939, in Iola, to Jerome J. “Jerry” and Virginia M. (Shaefer) Wille.…

If city councilmen need a nudge to approve the city’s participation in energy efficiency upgrades of Iolans who complete homes audits, make a point to give them one.This is a program, under the Take Charge!…

Broken is the excessive heat wave and high school coaches of fall sports are hoping temperatures stay within a working range.Those coaches are keeping their eyes on what the weather is going to do next…

Shelves and coolers at the Food Pantry, on the northeast corner of Broadway and Washington, are comfortably full today. That gives the Rev. Phil Honeycutt, its director, the satisfaction of being able to help those…