Month: May 2012

Dear editor, This is really a thank-you note to a lady whose name I do not know. Thank you for taking the purse you found in your car into the Walmart service desk. It seems…

A Wednesday news bit reported graduates in pharmacology, geophysics, astronomy and actuarial science not only had jobs when they were handed their degrees, but also could choose where they went to work.  The four graduates…

T-Ball Boys League A&W Family Restaurant: coaches, Leah and Roland Weir, Travis Weseloh; Rourk Boeken, Drake Weir, Karson Lampe, Ethan Riebel, Hunter Hutton, Hayden Patterson, Alijah Christy, Logan Yocham, Brigham Folk, Jackson Ulrich. W.K. Farms:…

Iola High girls’ tennis coach Jennifer Bycroft held a four-day tennis camp this week, concluding this morning, to teach the fundamentals of the game. She had 13 young ladies during the week learning tennis skills.…

Catch Cub baseball at the Class 3A state tournament on Chanute’s  KINZ 95.3 FM Radio Friday at 10:45 a.m. pregame for first-round action. “We don’t have to change who we are to play at the…

BRONSON — Residents will go “Swing’n Into The Future” Saturday for the 40th annual Bronson Day celebration. A number of special activities, including a free children’s identification project, sponsored by the Bourbon Masonic Lodge No.…

Wayne Barnett put off watering trees and plants at his nursery, Tennessee and East streets, Wednesday morning — about four hours later than he planned. Shortly before 10 a.m. water seeping from a crack in a…

The Iola High School band is heading to New York City next week to see some historical and entertaining sights as well as put on two performances for two community homes for the aged. “It…

Each year SAFE BASE has strived to give community youth a unique summer experience. While physical fitness has been the emphasis in the past couple of years, children will get a chance to grow a…

Memorial Day brings the reopening of the Iola Municipal Pool for the 2012 summer season. The city will open the pool at 1 p.m. Monday with Summer Splash 2012, featuring an assortment of contests and…