Allen Community College couldn’t hang with Highland Community College Thursday and was swept by matching scores of 8-0 in both games. “I feel like we played scared and tense,” said Allen coach Jamie Jensen. The…

Dear editor: I read with interest the article in Tuesday’s lola paper, “Obstacles emerge for tech ed center.” Ray Maloney has offered the use of two great buildings at the old Diebolt facility in LaHarpe…

Granddaughter Emma gave me a stare and then swallowed hard as she tried to fathom the import when I mentioned her great-great-grandmother married when she was 13. Emma is 14. Without saying so, I knew…

When the Internet first came into widespread use I was working as a librarian at a public library in Holland, Mich. Almost immediately, we librarians worried the Internet would be a threat to our jobs.…

Jared Froggatte, an Iola Police Department detective, filed for the Republican nomination for Allen County sheriff this week. Froggatte, rural Iola, handed County Clerk Sherrie Riebel petitions containing 275 names, about 200 of which were…

As many as 11 Kansas Department of Transportation employees may be affected if a decision is made to close KDOT’s area office in Iola. Wayne Gudmonson, District 4 engineer, which encompasses Allen County, said no…

Investigators from state and federal agencies remained for more than a day at the scene of a house fire that resulted in the death of whom authorities believe was Iolan Charles Burton Thursday morning. There…

Tracy Keagle doesn’t see challenges, she sees opportunities. Most recently she has picked up a torch that often has been in her grasp. She wants to help people, with the magnitude being much better defined…

Enthusiasm and animation weren’t lost on Tracy Keagle Thursday evening when she gave her views on how best to plant and enjoy a garden.  Five women and a single male were mesmerized, not only by…

A lan Weber moved to Iola from Lincoln, Neb., in 1967, when he was 14. His parents owned the motel on North State Street. As a teen, Weber worked at the motel, cleaning the pool,…