A property tax levy increase to sustain the Iola school district’s operating budget is expected to pass at next Monday’s USD 257 board meeting.For the past two years, the portion of dollars the state has…

James “Jim” D. Began, 81, of Marengo, Ill., and Mesa, Ariz., stepfather of Iolan Jim Rausch, died Saturday, July 2, 2011, in Mesa. He was born July 24, 1929, in Effingham, Ill., to Gerald and…

Heat and dust settled a bit here Friday and Saturday night as the 26th annual Allen County Fair Rodeo kicked up its heels.A cold front with a few sprinkles moved through Friday evening bringing the…

(Editor’s note: This is another in an occasional series about the churches of Iola.) “We’re just a country church in town,” the Rev. Marion Sponseller says of Community Baptist Church, 124 N. Fourth St. “You…

BURLINGTON — Benjamin M. Burke, 19, Burlington, drowned Thursday evening in the Neosho River just north of the Burlington city dam.Authorities were called to the drowning site and made several attempts to rescue Burke but…

“A lot of people wish they could do what we do,” Eric Burkhart said Saturday morning as he carefully laid a slab of ribs in a 55-gallon drum converted to barbecue grill.He was among those…

A member of the Dalton Gang was in town Saturday. But he wasn’t armed and dangerous.Dutch Dice was here to show his 1969 Chevrolet Impala convertible at the Allen County Fair Car Show.“We’re a good…

A possible new site has been found for the new Allen County Hospital.The 24.9-acre parcel lies just north of the residential care facility Fountain Villa on North Kentucky Street. At a specially called meeting Friday…