Lucas Stauffer-Rodriguez and Hadley Thompson were the winners of the Ranger in Time baskets. Students who read 10 or more Ranger in Time chapter books were entered into a drawing for a gift basket of…

Stephanie Herren, of LaHarpe, and her four children were the lucky winners of the CASA Family Swimming Basket at the recent Family Safety Night event. The basket includes a family pass to the Iola pool…

Wayne and Jane Turner of Boonville, Mo.,  recently collected their prize of a new 2019 Ford F150 Platinum Edition Truck from the annual Friends of Tri-Valley Foundation Truck Raffle Drawing. This year’s drawing marks the…

The fish were biting early and often at Saturday’s Hooked On Fishing, Not On Drugs (HOFNOD) fishing derby, sponsored by the Iola Police Department. The 75 registered youngsters, ages 2-17, landed 252 fish from Craig…

Two Iola elementary school students received honorable mention for safety posters they designed for the Kansas Farm Bureau Safety Poster Program. Sydney Hayes, a second-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, and  Michaela Riebel, a fifth-grader at…

Iola High School’s FFA chapter pulled in several key awards March 7 at the Allen Community College Dairy Cattle and Poultry Show. Iola’s B team took home first place in poultry, led by Lorie Carpenter’s…