Dorothy M. Howard, 81, Iola, passed away Sunday, July 21, 2013, at Windsor Place Nursing Home after a brief illness with cancer. Dorothy was born in Coffeyville on Jan. 16, 1932, the daughter of Clarence…

Emma Lucille (Emma Lou) Schomaker, 90, Yates Center, died Sunday, July 21, 2013 at Deseret Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Yates Center.The daughter of Charles Wallace and Vesta Alice (Wheeler) Simmons, Emma Lou was born…

Ronald Dean “Ronnie” Gordon, 74, Chanute, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family and his special pet “Walker” on Sunday, July 21, 2013, in Chanute.Ronnie was born on Nov. 8, 1938, in Kansas City,…

Pearl B. Wells, 94, Colony, passed away Saturday, July 20, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola.Pearl was born March 6, 1919, on the family farm southeast of Aliceville in Anderson County, the daughter of Walter…

Tryouts for the SEK Vipers, a traveling 10-and-under softball team, will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at Iola’s Riverside Park.Participants must be 10 years or younger by Dec. 31 to be eligible.Players are asked…

HUMBOLDT — The only thing hotter than the weather right now is John Allen. For the third week in a row, the 2012 points champion in USRA Modifieds at Humboldt Speedway showed the rest of…

 When Bob Hawk was in El Salvador with a Rotary team making eyeglasses for locals, a woman came whose vision was significantly impaired.With dexterity borne of having made many pairs, Hawk fashioned eyeglasses for the…

Construction of the Enbridge crude oil pipeline from Flanagan, Ill., to Cushing, Okla., will start in early August.Enbridge and U.S. Pipeline, which will build the south half of the 600-mile transportation system, had a come-and-go…

Altis Gordon Ferree, 78, passed away on Friday, July 19, 2013, at Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita.Altis was born Oct. 3, 1934 in Woodson County, the son of Marcus Ferree and Clara (Diver). Altis grew…

To the editor,Whether they are Iolans or persons from very far away, the motives of the promoters of the proposed new nursing home are clear. They each have a financial stake, whether large or small,…