Over the weekend, members of the Iola branch of the United State Bowling Council received their first place trophies for competing in a state-wide Bowling for Veterans Link tournament in November. The bowlers could participate…

Weather enthusiasts and storm spotters can learn about savage storms and wild weather Thursday at an annual presentation by the National Weather Service of Wichita. Storm Fury on the Plains will be offered at 6:30…

A service to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. — postponed from mid-January due to wintry weather — is tonight.The 7 o’clock service is at Iola’s Ward Chapel AME Church, at the…

Humboldt residents turned out en masse once again for the annual St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Groundhog Feed. A crowd of about 400 feasted on fresh pancakes and sausage prepared by St. Peter’s Men’s Club members.…

Two weeks ago a startling report called into question school transportation funding under direction of Dale Dennis, the state’s conceded authority on school finance.A letter to the Kansas Department of Education from Speaker of the…

Dear editor, Many times over the decades I have bemoaned the fact that our old courthouse was torn down. Iolans were told that there were structural damages that could not be repaired and that we…

Poverty is real. It is a way of life that is real for a large portion of our county and for 5.3 million Americans. Poverty is depressing, isolating, hard, tiring, stressful, and just plain terrible.…

Seldom has a presentation resonated with me as did Beth Toland’s for Iola Rotarians Thursday concerning ways to positively affect the early development of children. The process she outlined has scientifically proven twists and turns,…

Friday may go down in U.S. history as the day our democracy began to unravel. In a now customary tweet, President Donald Trump said the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are…

Cord Sawyer Hornberger, son of Clint and Ashley Hornberger, Baldwin City, was born Oct. 31, 2017, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence.Cord weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 20 inches long.He joins two older…