Russell Stover Chocolates partnered with the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce and G&W Foods to hold a Valentine’s event focused on career and community conversations. In addition to its normal flurry of activity, the Iola…

Iola Elementary School fifth-graders celebrated at Thursday’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) graduation ceremony. Lanie Mileham, Emma Wilson, Olivia Appling and Augustus Cook were chosen to read their essays. Others honored for  their essays were…

Folklorist Jim Hoy grew up on a stock ranch near Cassoday, lived all his life in the Flint Hills where he developed a fascination with the folklife of ranching. He heard tales of grasshoppers so…

Colony man faces sentencing COLONY — Joshua Lohff, 34, of Colony faced sentencing Wednesday on a single charge of illegally entering Crest High School in the wee hours of the morning last October, according to…

Members of the Iola Masonic Lodge 38 partnered with the Kansas Masonic Foundation in donating $1,000 to the Iola Community Food Pantry as well as food items as part of their “Operation Christmas.” Lodge members…

Students from 15 high schools, Allen Community College and Iola Middle School gave their rapt attention to Temple Grandin’s presentation on animal behavior and humane animal treatment at Iola’s Bowlus Fine Arts Center. It was…

A GoFundMe account has been set up to benefit Colleen Gregg of Chanute, who was injured in a two-vehicle accident on the outskirts of Iola Wednesday morning. Organizers said Gregg faces a long and grueling…

Pastor Chase Riebel’s sermon Sunday was “Ezekiel’s Object Lesson,” from Ezekiel 4. Ezekiel was warning the people that their disobedience would lead to a siege on Jerusalem. Revelation 21 warns us that the evil will…

Thomas Friedman, a foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times and prolific author, will speak Thursday, April 3, at Pittsburg State University. Friedman is the latest of notable figures to participate in PSU’s H.…

The National Weather Service will offer storm spotter training sessions — dubbed “Storm Fury on the Plains” — starting this week in southeast Kansas. Meteorologists from the NWS office in Wichita will help prepare storm…