Allen Community College coach Vince DeGrado is building a dynasty in Iola. His men’s cross country team has won four straight conference championships and last year the women’s team joined the party by winning its…

I got a call from a well-meaning Gas resident after we reported city council members voted to permit use of fireworks year-round. The person — gender isn’t important — wondered if that meant residents were…

The other day I saw an oversized Confederate flag waving from the bed of a pickup as it drove through town.   Yes, this is a country where people can freely display their prejudices, but…

The parents of Maggie Jo Stevens are pleased to announce the engagement of their daugther to Brian Matthew Schmidt. Maggie is the daughter of Chuck and Michelle Johnson and Charles and Jodie Stevens, all of…

Michael Blane and Mona Susan Melvin of Iola are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Marah Lenann Melvin, to Wesley Preston McFadden, son of Jacque Lorraine Ensminger and Jack W. McFadden of Iola.…

Berniece Joy Stanley, 96, Garnett, formerly of Kincaid, died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, at Olathe Medical Center.   Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Garnett. The…

Larry Earl Ryherd died peacefully at home in Summerfield, Fla., of pancreatic cancer on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at 8:46 p.m. He was born Sept. 16, 1940, to Earl E (Bubby) Ryherd and Halcie Johnson…

Richard Dennis Habiger of Iola died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, at the VA Medical Center in Topeka. He was 69. Richard was born at St. John Hospital in Iola on Oct. 28, 1946, the first…

Arthur Lonnie Jaro Jr., 68, Humboldt, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016 in Chanute. Lonnie was born on July 27, 1948, in Stark, to Arthur Jaro Sr. and Selma (Stevens) Jaro. On Oct. 15,…

Earlier this summer Bob McKenzie, a Tulsa Rotarian, rode his bicycle through Iola during the 35th annual Ride Across America. Thursday, he told Iola Rotarians about the experience and his devotion to Rotary’s signature project,…