Ask Susan Knavel what sort of Christmas light display she’d create if she had unlimited resources, and her eyes light up like 1,000 LED bulbs. “Have you seen that show, ‘The Great Christmas Lights Fight?’…

Allen County commissioners are working with locals to ensure Christmas cheer still comes to the Iola square this year. Dance studio director Chelsea Lea volunteered her services with regard to helping make sure lights would…

Iola CITF/PRIDE members decorate downtown planters for the holidays. Here, Chelsey Beasley, left, and Donna Houser fight the wind to install candy cane decorations. Also assisting were Corey Schinstock, Heather Curry and Tiffany Reed, CITF…

Downtown Iola won’t shine quite as brightly this holiday season due to a decision by local “elf,” Tracy Keagle, to forgo decorating the courthouse lawn with an array of colorfully lit trees and a giant…

Jennifer Liles decorated her home in Le Roy for Easter with a nod to staying safe amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with a large face mask for her front bush.

The Iola square is on track to look like a Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree if more people don’t sign up to adopt a tree. “Last year we had 60 or more trees decorated. The downtown…