Improvements will be made soon to the apron area at Allen County Airport where fueling is done.Bill King, director of Public Works, told county commissioners Tuesday a pre-construction conference would be Sept. 7. Soon thereafter,…

Allen County commissioners Rob Francis and Gary McIntosh — Dick Works was absent — told Humboldt representatives Tuesday they were hard pressed regarding helping with funding of a street project on the east side of…

Violating the state’s new seat belt laws is significantly more expensive in Iola than it is for other places in the state.With a new court fine schedule approved Tuesday by Iola city commissioners, a motorist…

A one-block stretch of Broadway Street, on the north side of McKinley Elementary School, will soon become one-way.Iola commissioners were told Tuesday that police officers, after visiting with school officials, recommended the street run only…

Iola Commissioner Bill Shirley expressed his support Tuesday for a new hospital, but he hopes the city is included in the planning process.Allen County commissioners will decide very soon whether to ask for a quarter-…

While times are tough, the city must not become such a miser that it chokes off its own future, Iola Mayor Bill Maness said Tuesday.Maness spoke at Tuesday’s city commission meeting in response to a…

Iola commissioners rejected Tuesday a revised change order that would have cost the city an additional $19,530 to complete the Iola Public Library roof, part of the library’s ongoing renovations.At issue is a series of…

— PAID OBITUARY — William Henry Enfield, 89, of Bentonville, Ark., died Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Ark.  He was born Jan. 24, 1921, in Iola, Kan., to Alfred Ray…

I have a few questions regarding the hospital we are going to build. Are we voting on a hospital in November or are we voting on a sales tax? Is there no other funding available?…

Here’s something to crow about.The 215 grave markers in the veterans section of Highland Cemetery now are lined up straight as a string with a plumb bob at the end.Over the past several years the…