About 5 miles west of Iola, at the rural intersection of Missouri Road and 400 Street on the crest of a high hill, stands a 125-year-old farmhouse with a view of three counties. To the…

HUMBOLDT — Calling it ham simply doesn’t do it justice.“Ham steak,” Lisa Wrestler clarified.Each serving was so monstrously thick that the paper plate burdened with the responsibility of carrying such a cut should surely bend,…

MORAN — It was a long-traveled road but the Goetsch family has found their home in Moran.Brock Goetsch, 30, became the pastor for Moran Baptist Church in May. The California native is joined by wife…

Windsor Place’s Age-to-Age pre-school program, in its fifth year, remains an unqualified success, Marian Highberger told Iola Rotarians Thursday.The USD 257 program permits kids to experience the nursing home’s elderly residents, and for them to…

INDEPENDENCE — Bobbi Sinclair battled for two hours, but the Iola senior fell just short of advancing past the regional tournament after losing to Chanute’s Sage Collins on Friday (6-3, 3-6, 9-11 tiebreaker).“(Sinclair) walked off…

Wellsville wasn’t going to fool Iola.For all intents and purposes, the Mustangs knew what was coming. They even knew when it was coming.But near the end of their 26-6 home loss to the Eagles on…

ELSMORE — Gone are the days when sounding the local storm siren meant dispatching somebody to the Elsmore fire barn to manually sound the alarm.Thanks in part to a collaborative effort with the city of Elsmore,…

Man’s best friend is making his way to the Bowlus stage this weekend.Allen Community College Theatre will present, “Snoopy: The Musical” tonight, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.The musical brings…

Cheryl E. Tedder, 64, Iola, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, at Iola Nursing Center.  Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday at the First Christian Church in Iola.  Burial will be in Iola’s Highland…

Iola’s youth football league will continue its season on Tuesday with its Pink Night at Riverside Park. Players will have the opportunity to play for someone that they know that has cancer.The third and fourth…