The United Methodist Church will host two ice cream socials on Thursday.  The first is at 4 p.m. in fellowship hall at the Calvary Life Center, formerly Calvary United, at the corner of Jackson and…

Harold Keith (Snooks) Thornhill, 82, Iola, died Sunday, July 24, 2022, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Snooks was born Sept. 3, 1939, in Iola, to Russell C. Thornhill and Vina Thornhill.  Snooks and Barbara JoAnne…

Craig “Trooper” Cloud, 33, passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Craig was born July 28, 1988, to Rick Cloud and Ronna Howerton in Iola. He attended Iola High…

While new experiences may be overwhelming for youngsters in a competitive format, not many have the nerves of steel like 8-year-old Lainey Church. Church, a member of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club, is in her…

Dear editor, I am not a Republican and I don’t live in McPherson. So this is not civic or party loyalty opinion. For the first time in a long time, I agree with a politician. …

Dear editor, Luke Aichele is running for District 9 State Board of Education. I met him last week to see why he is running for the position and what he has to offer. Luke has…

The end of this first round of Jan. 6 committee hearings offers a moment for the nation to take stock of what has been revealed about former President Donald Trump, his acolytes and their scheme…

A time-honored Washington axiom holds that one should never attribute to scandal what could be explained by garden-variety incompetence. In the case of the Secret Service’s mysteriously missing text messages, however, mere ineptitude doesn’t quite…

Despite the fervent support the Republican leadership has given to the Value Them Both amendment, its fate on August 2 may not tell us much about the current Kansas GOP. But the Republican contest for…

A 9-year-old boy who was camping at an Iowa state park with his parents and 6-year-old sister survived a shooting that killed the rest of his family. The Iowa Department of Public Safety identified the…