FORT SCOTT — Iola Middle School’s girls struggled in road games at Fort Scott Thursday.Iola’s eighth-grade A team trailed 10-0 after one period, and rebounded after that but couldn’t threaten the host Tigers in a…

BURLINGTON — Iola Middle School’s wrestling team opened the 2013 season with little experience, but that didn’t slow the Ponies on Thursday.Iola took 11 wrestlers to the Burlington Bobcat Classic Thursday. They won 17 of…

McKenna Nicole Meiwes was born on Oct. 23, 2013, at Ft. Scott Mercy Hospital.She weighed 6 pounds and 12½ ounces. She was 20½ inches long.McKenna is the daughter of Brittney and Seth Meiwes, Moran.Her maternal…

If Colorado could go back in time, it would pick 1992 as the year to do over.That’s when voters approved TABOR, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which has effectively strangled the state’s ability to adequately…

Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc., a national retailer based in Birmingham, Ala.,  announced it had executed a lease for a new store in Iola. Hibbett Sports will open the new store this winter in the former…

Members of the community are working together yet again to beautify Iola’s downtown area.Community Involvement Task Force (CITF) members, along with Allen Community College’s theater students, have been remodeling and repainting the exterior of a…

HUMBOLDT — Johnny Appleseed would have suffered a few fits of anxiety here Wednesday night.Most downtown business owners don’t want trees growing in front of their shops.Streetscape improvements for the downtown area, in the works…

‘Leaving Iowa’ opens tonight Iola High School tackles some heavy issues in its latest play — but don’t worry, this road trip never takes itself too seriously.“Leaving Iowa,” which opens tonight and runs Friday evening…

South East Kansas was well represented over the weekend weekend in the Fifth Annual Kansas Explosion II Cancer Benefit in Paola, earning championships in both the 18- and 12-and-under divisions. tournament Champions. The past five…

Brendan Steele, who has starred on the football field and cross country fields for Hiawatha High School this fall, has Iola ties.Steele lives in Hiawatha with his mother and stepfather, Angie and Stephen Gilpin. He…