Dear Editor,   Five kids shot in Ohio high school and yet our radical governor here in Kansas actually wants to allow guns to be carried in some of our schools. What’s next, everyone carrying…

Rick Santorum found a new hate last week: John F. Kennedy. JFK made him want to vomit, Santorum told a crowd, when he made a much-quoted speech celebrating the separation of church and state in…

Artist Deann Norris’ enthusiasm in demonstrating the painting technique called impasto sparked the creative juices in Tera Reed’s students at Allen County Community College as they put palette knives to work spreading paint using the…

An unsuccessful attempt to steal metal from along the Prairie Spirit Trail route caught the Iola City Council’s eye. Councilmen spoke Monday about the arrest last week of an Iola man, who attempted to use…

A site plan clears the way for construction to begin on a new Allen County Hospital. Iola City Council members approved the plan for a 30-acre parcel of land along North Kentucky Street at their…

To set the record straight about the “talk around the square,” which many contend is primarily negative, a handful of Iola area citizens are organizing a monthly “Talk Around the Square,” forum where area residents…

Another round of cuts are needed to keep Iola schools in the black. Pointing to expected staff additions, inflation and increases in teacher pay and insurance costs, Superintendent of Schools Brian Pekarek told board members…

Local Republicans began their meeting Monday night with an indictment of the federal government by airing the first few minutes of comedian Tim Hawkins’ political parody “The Government Can,” sung to the catchy tune of…

The Iola school board will hold a special meeting Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in the high school lecture hall to discuss administrator contracts. The meeting is open to the public but the contracts discussions will…

Susan D. “Sue” Traw, 65, of Iola, passed from this life into the presence of the Lord on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, at her home. She was born Feb. 2, 1947, in Humboldt, Neb., the…