This is the (fiscal) year Kansas legislators are happy to kiss goodbye. Or maybe boot out the door.Monday’s numbers showed we ended the fiscal year $338 million shy of that budgeted. For June, we were…

Michael Lee Boles, 65, Piqua, passed away Saturday, June 28, 2014, at his home. Funeral services will be on Thursday at 10 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Church with visitation one hour prior to service time.…

Dorothy D. Whitley, 90, Iola, died Monday, June 30, 2014, at Fountain Villa in Iola.Dorothy was born April 9, 1924, in Croweburg, the daughter of David Ira and Minnie Marie (Greer) Darrow. She grew up…

Brynn Fontenot was a shade too short to get to go down the Iola Municipal Pool water slides last summer.“But we’re going to be all over it this year,” her mother, Brooke White said Monday,…

Eileen Smith was pleased Monday afternoon that the Rev. Jennifer Loeb, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, took her Sunday sermon to heart.“I was feeling a little over the edge,” said Smith when she noticed Loeb…

The Iola Elks Lodge will host activities for folks of all ages Friday for their annual Independence Day celebration.The event kicks off at 9 a.m. with the annual Ed Hendrix Fishing Derby, open to those…

Obesity rates have been rising in the United States for years and this has made health problems rise with it, including diabetes. Type 2 diabetes, once considered an adult disease, has been rising in children…