Iola Swim Team’s Seahorses were in Shark infested waters at home Wednesday. The Seahorses hosted Chanute Swim Team’s Sharks in SEK Swim League competition. It was the fourth of the six swim meets of the…

Local Girl Scouts spent the day Wednesday studying fire and knife safety as well as archery at Iola’s Riverside Park. Above, Jada Stogdill, 10, aims downrange before letting loose with her second arrow of the…

  Regardless of whom voters favor in the presidential race, Zach St. Clair and Gus Hopkins hope to be there to greet the winner on Inauguration Day. The Iola teens both were awarded partial scholarships…

Some say hard work is the building block to a successful life — for Jeremiah Booth those words couldn’t be more fitting. Booth was just released this week from the Allen County Jail and has…

John Coen hopes his stance as a Republican “with traditional values” will come across to voters in his race for the Kansas Senate. Coen, 55, aligns himself as a moderate who favors keeping Kansas schools…

George Barker Jenkins Jr., 79, rural Blue Mound, died Sunday, June 24, 2012, at his home. He was born Aug. 24, 1932, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of George Barker Jenkins Sr. and Nancy…

If we all practiced 4-H protocol, the world would be a better place. Carla Nemecek, longtime area Extension agent, recently wrote of what the club’s four “Hs” stand for. Combined, keeping your head, heart, hands…

Where there are summer baseball and softball games there’s going to be heat. The safety and well-being of the girls and boys who play Iola Recreation summer league games are foremost on their minds, said…

Welcome home. Iola American Legion Post 15’s AA Indians finally played games at home Tuesday. They got past visiting Wellsville in a doubleheader sweep on the Allen Community College field. The Indians used a seven-run…

At Thursday’s Allen County Farmers Market Jeff Livingston, Walmart manager, will have a booth set up so he can personally talk to local farmers about how they can become one of Walmart’s produce providers.  Livingston…