Iola Soccer Club tryouts for traveling soccer teams in the fall and spring are this weekend. Tryouts are open to boys and girls in fifth through eighth grades. Tryouts are Saturday and Sunday from 6:30…

Voluntary conditioning for any and all Iola Middle School students began Monday morning. The conditioning sessions are each morning, 7 to 8,  this week at the IMS football practice field. IMS football coach Marty Taylor…

Winning Iola’s first Kansas American Legion AA State Baseball title in 24 years, the 2012 Iola AA Indians qualified for the American Legion Baseball Division 2 Central Plains National Regional. The Indians leave Wednesday to…

LONDON — Former Allen Community College All-American Isiah Young qualified for the men’s 200-meter semifinals at the London Olympic Games. Young ran in this morning’s qualifying heat races in London. Young finished third in his…

Iola police officer Mike Ford will talk about “Scams and Frauds that Prey on Seniors” at Iola Public Library at 2 p.m. Thursday.  He will be discuss how to recognize and avoid common scams and…

The oncoming school year will offer area youngsters one more chance for a pool party. Steve and Cecilia Orcutt, retired USD 257 art teachers, will host the fourth annual Moonlight Splash to cap the summer…

MORAN — A myriad of issues faced the Moran City Council Monday night. The four topping the agenda were a discussion of golf cart usage in city limits, use of metal detectors on city property,…

The oncoming school year will offer area youngsters one more chance for a pool party. Steve and Cecilia Orcutt, retired USD 257 art teachers, will host the fourth annual Moonlight Splash to cap the summer…

A $40,000 water system improvement approved Monday by the Iola City Council will reduce the fine the city was ordered to pay recently by the Environmental Protection Agency for wastewater violations. Councilmen approved, 6-1, the…

SAVONBURG — A grass fire kept firefighters occupied for several hours Monday as dried vegetation quickly succumbed to the rapidly moving flames. The fire initially was reported along a pasture near the intersection of U.S.…