Sure, the temperature is expected to dip below levels acceptable for any sane man or beast in the coming days, so let’s think about summer. Donna Houser, a long-time Iola Community Involvement Task Force/PRIDE member,…

Note: Paul Zirjacks, age 86, is a retired Army veteran who served 30 years and reached the rank of Sergeant Major. During my U.S. Army career, my late wife, Judy, and I spent many years…

Bitterly cold temperatures, snow and wind chills are heading this way. If you can, stay home and keep warm, Jason Trego, Allen County’s emergency management director, advises.  A wind chill watch takes effect Wednesday night…

When he was just a tot, Iola High School principal Scott Carson and his brothers would tromp outside their family’s farmhouse near Parsons on a very important Christmas Eve mission — to scatter food for…

A local family has found a way to give back after a devastating accident in August.  Austin Sigg, age 35, received more than 20 units of blood after being severely burned on Aug. 30 from…

Nathan Fawson knows a thing or two about trying to stretch a dollar. For years, Fawson, executive director of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, has labored to help the center provide increasingly costly mental…

Note: Mitch Garner is Public Works director for Allen County. Donita Garner is the Child Advocacy Center coordinator at Hope Unlimited. When you ask someone what brings on those feelings of the “magic of Christmas”…

Doctors are teachers, in a way.  They educate patients about their diseases, how medications work and lifestyle changes that could improve their condition. For Dr. Sam Wilcox, a new physician for the Allen County Regional…

Allen Community College is taking steps to grow its early childhood education program. At the behest of Beth Toland, who has been in charge of the program since 2009, trustees voted Tuesday to add a…

Iola Middle and High School orchestra students performed a concert on Wednesday evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center under the direction of Elizabeth Cunningham.