Iola High’s Fillies may get to see a new Pioneer League rivalry develop a few months early on the softball diamond. The third seed Fillies may potentially face off against top seed Santa Fe Trail…

  Terika Henry is one the fastest women in Kansas, at least when it comes to the outdoor 200-meter dash. Henry and members of the Allen Community College track team are in Mesa, Ariz., for…

Val McLean, the face of the Allen Community College baseball team for a generation, has resigned, after receiving an evaluation that he felt left him no other choice. McLean’s resignation was accepted Tuesday evening by…

Iola students can look forward to new food options next school year. On Monday night the USD 257 Board of Education finalized a contract with OPPA Food Management.  OPPA specializes in serving nutritional meals to…

Jeff Dieker is proud to have graduated from Allen Community College, which he intends to emphasize when he speaks at ACC’s commencement exercises at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Dieker was selected as ACC’s distinguished alumnus this…

Morgan Gene Bennett, 21, Iola, died Sunday, May 11, 2014, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Morgan was born April 14, 1993, in Chanute, the son of Robert and Mary (Dietrich) Bennett. He graduated from Iola…

In his pitch to be the 2016 nominee for president, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said climate change is bunk and any efforts to develop renewable energy are a waste of money. Had he been in…

GAS — Gas council members will meet in special session next Tuesday to discuss how to proceed with upgrade of the old Gas School as a community center. They reviewed recommendations from Shoeb Uddin, an…

Iola’s ambulance service financial trend is looking better, City Administrator Carl Slaugh told Allen County commissioners Tuesday. Latest projections suggest the countywide service will have a deficit of $190,000 by year’s end, Slaugh said. That’s…

Several Iolans will check off another item on their bucket lists next week. On Tuesday, 18 pilgrims, as the Rev. Trudy Kenyon-Anderson likes to call them, will journey to Israel for a 10-day visit. Kenyon-Anderson,…