Patti Whitcomb can remember only one time when weather stopped the mail — a blizzard halted incoming trucks from Kansas City — but Monday morning was business as usual, despite below-freezing temperatures.Whitcomb is one of…

Carol E. Solomon passed away Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at Diversicare of Chanute where she had been a resident for five years.The family will welcome visitors at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola from 6…

Public education and its funding has been a cumbersome topic, said Kansas Sen. Caryn Tyson. Tyson, District 12, spoke with Humboldt community members on Friday about plans for Kansas education. Currently, a decision to request…

The mercury bottomed out at 9 degrees below zero just before dawn today. That may have been a record low for a Jan. 6, but wasn’t an all-time low for Iola.At least eight times the…

NEODESHA — Yates Center High’s basketball teams opened the 2014 portion of their schedules Friday with a split.The Wildcat boys snapped a three-game losing skid by downing Neodesha High’s Bluestreaks, 64-44.The Yates Center girls fell…

Over the holidays I came in possession of three butternut squash. Rather than serve as three separate side dishes, I substituted one squash for pumpkin puree and made a sweet bread, which was every bit…

The last two Sunday mornings Iola crews worked in sub-freezing weather to repair broken water mains. More and more, city crews are called out to repair the city’s decaying water line system. Crews are called…

The idea of moving makes many people cringe, and that’s on a normal scale. For Catalyst Artificial Lift, the move from Humboldt to Iola is on an unprecedented scale.Justin Defebaugh, plant manager for Catalyst, is…

Katie (Miller) Yoder, 75, Garnett, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014.Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the Church of Nazarene, Garnett. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on…

I’ve considered myself a moderate Republican from the time I was old enough to think seriously about such things.Nowadays I don’t know what to call myself. By standards espoused by the ultra-conservatives, I’m liberal and…