This Tuesday’s conversation at Iola High School organized by Thrive Allen County’s high school interns brought around 300 students together to imagine what could be different and how things could improve in their hometown. It’s…

Dear Carolyn: I got my dream job and now get to move to the D.C. area. My husband is less than enthused about the move, considering his family lives in our town now, we have…

The new Iola Elementary School will be unveiled to the public with an open house next week. “It’s been a long process, but the finish line is near,” Dan Willis, USD 257 school board president,…

School starts in about a month. That fact alone might raise the anxiety level of most students, parents and teachers. For those in USD 257, it’s even more daunting. There’s just a handful of weeks…

Dear Carolyn: My husband has recently become very anxious, specifically about fire danger. Yes, we live in a fire-prone area, and there have been several big fires in the past few years. But our house…

While I’m away, readers give the advice.   On moving close to the grandkids (or not): Twenty years ago I called my mother, who was living 400 miles away, still working at her career, and…