Iola’s 2021 spending plan is slowly coming into focus. City Council members spent the better part of two hours Monday hearing budget proposals from Iola’s various department heads, with a familiar refrain.  Capital expenditures are…

For many youngsters, the Iola Recreation Department’s summer baseball/softball season is the highlight of the season. It gives children the opportunity to compete for bragging rights with their friends, improve their skills, and most importantly…

Over 250 people braved the heat Sunday to support racial equality, and to take a stand against racism and prejudice based on skin color. The rally on the Iola square, which featured multiple speakers from…

On Monday morning I called longtime Iola merchant Jan Knewtson to ask if I could do a story about her decision to retire. “Well, not today,” she said. “I can’t seem to stop crying.” On…

Almost every day, Randy Latta would pick up his mother, Virgina, from Greystone Assisted Living in Iola and take her for a drive. They’d go visit the family farm and look at the cows. Sometimes,…

Iola city building superintendent Lonnie Henkle said 163 building permits were issued in 1974 for all manner of construction, including homes, businesses, building additions, garages, fences and signs. Twenty-seven of those resulted in the construction…

  For the first time in many years, the city limits of Iola were extended. The city commission decided to take in about six square blocks of the Sunny Side addition. The area is between…

30 Years Ago Nancy Maier, director of the Home Health Agency and director of Older Adult Services at Allen County Hospital, has been named Outstanding Nurse of Allen County for 1990. ***** Dick Works, a…

Wispy clouds slowly turned to shades of pink and muted red as the sun emerged over the eastern horizon. Coming alive atop the peaked tin roof of an old barn, three turkey buzzards stretched awake.…

In the last 30 days, the City of Iola has hauled away thousands of truckloads of debris for individual households — twice. The first was the city’s biannual citywide pickup in mid-April, where residents left…