By Christina Richards My romantic love story is about my husband’s and my love story that started over 20 years ago.   We met in Lawrence while we were both teenagers. As high-schoolers, we both…

By Retabess Ling  My love story began on a Friday evening in March of 1946. My family had moved the first of March from a farm near Moran to a farm northeast of Iola. I…

By Donna Houser In the 1950s, North High School played in the Ark Valley league because there were only two high schools in Wichita, besides one Catholic school.   My mother or father always took…

By Jeremy McGinnis FIRST PLACE In the summer of 1996 I came to Iola, to start training for a soccer scholarship I earned at Allen Community College. To make some extra money and to get…

By Chelsea Buck Travis and I have known each other since grade school. We originally met at Harvest Baptist Church in Iola. We unknowingly had a crush on each other for years. We became high…

By Beverly Franklin  Ours isn’t a romantic or funny story, just a long one.  Jack and I met at a carnival at Riverside Park in the spring of 1955. He was home on leave from…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Being cooped up at home due to the pandemic paid handsomely for a Minnesota horticulture teacher who used the extra time to constantly water and feed a massive pumpkin…

Southwind Extension District 4-H members from Allen and Neosho counties competed Sunday at the Kansas State Fair Photography Judging Contest. The senior team of Jenni Armstrong, Megan Kueser, and Zoi Yoho placed third. Yoho came…

Rube Goldberg was best known for his political cartoons showing gadgets perform simple tasks in exorbitantly complicated ways. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1948, and…

NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Vermont officials have launched their annual contest to guess how long the ice will last on Lake Memphremagog. The Caledonian Record reports for its “Ice Out” contest, the Newport Parks and…