Dear editor, I think we have a great person among us in this little town. She does a lot behind the scenes that we probably don’t even know about.  She takes a lot upon…

“I get my photo in the newspaper too much,” Donna Houser lightheartedly lamented this week, after a photo Monday showed her leading a tour of improvements at the football complex in Riverside Park.  If anything,…

On Sept. 4, 1966, William E. (Bill) Campbell, of Kansas City, Kan., and Gayle L. Scoville, of Kansas City, Mo., eloped and drove to Oklahoma and were married by Judge Leslie Stalcup in the Nowata…

Soil cleanup can be a lengthy process. It’s been more than a decade since the Environmental Protection Agency first targeted Iola’s properties as in need of remediation, contaminated from when zinc smelters operated a century…

The first time he climbed on a tractor back in the mid-1950s, Garry Daniels learned there’s more to the real thing than the toy ones. As he approached the end of a field, he wasn’t…

ANDOVER — Matt Percy earned the right to hoist the Virgil Parker Cup. The Cup was awarded to Percy and his teammates after Percy’s putt on the 18th green at the Flint Hills National Golf…

Hayley Mertens now holds an Allen Community College record and the mark has a chance to stand for quite a while. Red Devil head volleyball coach Whitney Shaw and her husband Andy Shaw — the…

Last month Roger Ailes was ousted as chairman of Fox News because of allegations of sexual harassment from more than 20 women.Instead of crawling under a rock, Ailes is now prepping Donald Trump for the…

Judith M. Moore passed away Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.Graveside services will be at 2 p.m., Sept. 3, at Greenwood Cemetery, Belmont.Visitation will follow at the family home, 413 N. Kansas, Wichita, Kan.

After graduating from Iola High School in 2008, Elizabeth Cunningham enrolled in Allen Community College and entered upon a course of study that would make her, in time, an art teacher.But plans change and courses…