The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce and local businesses presented the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF) with a $1,120 donation Friday. Participating businesses donated a portion of their sales during last Thursday’s 620 Day,…

To understand their love of baseball, look no further than their grandfathers. Allie Utley’s grandfather, the late Dick Davis, would watch Kansas City Royals games with his granddaughter when she was still a toddler. He’d…

Allen County Commissioners made quick business of a light agenda Tuesday morning. In Commissioner Bruce Symes’ absence, commissioners David Lee and Jerry Daniels approved a donation of funds for LaHarpe Day. Representing the City of…

It’s the kind of timing that makes you wonder if greater forces are at work. Ron Nelson traveled to Iola from his home in rural Bonner Springs on Friday to deliver refurbished bicycles to Humanity…

The Iola Senior Citizens, Inc. donated $500 to the Iola Elementary School Library.  The funds are being used to purchase this year’s award-winning books: Newberry, Caldecott, Geisel, Pura Belpre, and Coretta Scott King.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City medical school will be tuition-free for all students from now on thanks to a $1 billion donation from a former professor, the widow of a Wall Street…

Hope Unlimited received a major boost in fundraising for its capital campaign, Building Hope, thanks to a recent donation of $14,585.47 from Your Community Foundation’s Women Helping Women fund. Hope Unlimited, a non-profit that provides…

Iola’s Masonic Lodge donated several canned goods and a monetary gift to the Iola Community Pantry for the holidays. From left are Masons Wade Park, Jay Stogsdill, the Rev. Kenyon Kaehr of the Community Pantry…

From left, Donna and Kenyon Kaehr of the Iola Food Pantry stand with Peerless employees Jeff White, Dewey Stotler, Khrista Daum and Angel Kaufman. Peerless Products donated 532 pounds of food to the Iola Community…

The Iola Elementary School Library received a boost from Modern Woodmen of America, a non-profit fraternal life insurance organization, after a recent book fair. Volunteers organized the book fair, which netted the library about $3,300…