WELLSVILLE — Iola Middle School ended its 2024 track and field season with a bang Monday. The Mustang athletes brought home plenty of gold — nine individual event champions — while the IMS seventh-grade girls…

PLEASANTON — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Clara Ferguson picked a perfect time to etch her name into the school’s history books. The seventh-grader threw the shot put 36 feet, 8.5 inches to win the event…

MOUND CITY — Middle-schoolers from Iola, Marmaton Valley and Yates Center were at the Jayhawk-Linn Invitational Thursday. Iola Middle School’s seventh-grade girls and eighth-grade boys both brought home team championships. Yates Center’s seventh-grade girls took…

In the spring of 1974, Jerry Smith was still new to Iola Junior High School. He’d been hired the previous fall as an assistant to Iola High football coach Ray Houser, and as such, his…

Iola Middle School hosted Burlington, Anderson County and Prairie View Tuesday for a quadrangular track meet. The Mustang seventh-grade girls took home first place in its division, while both the seventh- and eighth-grade boys teams…

HUMBOLDT — Middle-schoolers from Iola, Yates Center and other area schools descended upon Humboldt Thursday for their season-opening track meet, with several picking up gold medals in the process. Local results follow: High jump Seventh…