You’ll be hard-pressed to find a bigger cheerleader for the Iola area than Mary Benningfield. A relative newcomer — she and her family moved to Iola about two years ago from her native Tulsa —…

Like any move, shifting art, choir and drama classes from the Bowlus Fine Arts Center to Iola High School came with challenges. Some were logistical: Where do you find space for the new classrooms? Others…

The next director of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center says he wants to respect the center’s history as a cultural staple of southeast Kansas, while bringing back big-name acts and capitalizing on economic development efforts…