Iola High’s Mustangs had the defending Southeast Kansas League champion Independence High Bulldogs right where they wanted them. The Mustangs led 6-4 and needed just two outs to win Tuesday’s first game.Unfortunately, the Mustangs couldn’t…

Six records were set during competition at Tuesday’s 2010 Iola Middle School Invitational track and field meet. Five of them were in the seventh-grade boys’ division.Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade boys finished second with 73 points…

GAS — Gas will get into the trash business.Steve Robb, city superintendent, told councilmen Tuesday evening he thought city employees could handle the weekly chore and, “the way I have it figured, we can put…

GAS — A quarter-mile-long walking track will be installed this summer at Fees Park at the west edge of Gas. The trail will be four feet wide and circle the park. City councilmen accepted a…

One hundred ninety-eight quilts will be exhibited this weekend at the Sunflower Quilters Guild’s quilt show at Iola Middle School, 600 East St. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to…

Allen County commissioners were told Tuesday there may be as many as 38 graves on former county poor farm property three miles north of Iola.Butch Cuppet, who has searched for graves in area cemeteries, checked…

A smaller percentage of property tax has been collected in Allen County compared to a year ago, but the number of tax dollars is greater.County Treasurer Sharon Utley told commissioners Tuesday that approximately $8.6 million…

Allen County commissioners — Dick Works reluctantly — voted Tuesday to spend $63,200 to remodel the Heartland Rural Electric shop building to accommodate county ambulances and crews.An adjunct was that the work be completed within…

Iola likely will alter how it handles future cleanup weeks because of rule changes at the Allen County Landfill.Iola City Administrator Judy Brigham told Iola commissioners Tuesday that with a new trash cell open at…

Commission declines to raise city’s water rates Iolans will begin paying a monthly charge for stormwater collections, although Iola commissioners declined to touch the city’s water rates and the admission fees to the Iola Municipal…