PARSONS — Iola Middle School’s golf team did something that may have not been done for over 20 years. It won the Southeast Kansas League junior high golf championship Thursday.In 1989, the Iola Junior High’s…

OSAWATOMIE — Welcome back Darin Hutton.The Iola High senior thrower missed the first part of the track season because of illness. On Thursday, Hutton was a double-gold medal winner in the throwing events for the…

PARSONS — Third time was a charm for Iola High senior Kent Toland.Toland played in his third  No. 1 singles’ championship match in as many Southeast Kansas League tennis tournaments on Thursday. Twice he was…

Today’s rain postponed the Burlington Middle School track meet which Iola Middle School was to have competed in until Monday. Start time is 10 a.m.Also the softball and baseball doubleheaders between Iola High School and…

Humboldt Speedway has postponed races from tonight to Sunday afternoon because of the rain.Gates open at 2 p.m. Sunday and races begin at 4 p.m.The go-kart races for Sunday have been canceled.

It’s probably the “nice, wet winter,” Nita Cummings said, that has poison ivy everywhere this year.Cummings, a licensed practical nurse at The Family Physicians in Iola said the office has seen a number of patients…

Sandy Praeger, Kansas Commissioner of Insurance, will speak at the Iola Rotary Club on “Impact of Health Care Reform on Small Businesses and Medicaid” at noon Thursday at the New Greenery Restaurant, 1303 N. State…

Jazmyne Honeycutt’s schedule can be a bit hectic, she admitted.When not focused on her studies, the Iola High School senior also is a standout athlete in a variety of sports. And since the start of…

Jerry Allen Bland Jr., 17, of Pittsburg and formerly of Iola died Sunday, April 25, 2010, at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo.He was born Dec. 8, 1992, in Iola, to Jerry Allen…

Thank you, Mr. Lynn, for your article supporting a new transportation program. Every dollar spent on highway construction, and this includes local county bridges and city street paving, equals three dollars in economic development. Even…