It was an emotional day in Drug Court as they celebrated their second graduating class on Thursday. Three graduated from the program, bringing the total number who have completed the program to four. “This is…

Silence trickles through the halls of Lincoln Elementary School. Another school year has come to a close for principal Larry Hart. This particular year is number 42 and it is his last one as a…

Transport of a 63-foot iron bridge through Iola had motorists doing double-takes Thursday evening. The bridge, built in 1909 over Owl Creek three miles west of Humboldt, will become part of a new exercise trail…

Rob Nelson, Leslie J. Campbell American Legion Post commander, will speak at Memorial Day services in Highland Park Monday morning. The annual recognition of veterans, alive and deceased, will start at 11 a.m. Iola and…

Ten years ago I spent one hour a week reading to a little girl as part of an elementary school reading program. This week, she asked if I would write her a letter of recommendation…

Once upon a time, a popular event was the Iola-to-Humboldt innertube race. It started out as a lark in 1969, when Bill Haire and friends tossed innertubes in the Neosho River below the dam west…

Emily Mulsow, Iola, and Brent Trammell, Texhoma, Okla., will be married on Aug. 2, 2014, at Yates Center United Methodist Church. Emily is the daughter of Susan and the late Dick Mulsow. She is the…

Carly Mulsow, Iola, and Tom Stinnett, Moran, will be married on June 14, 2014, at a country setting in rural Iola. Carly is the daughter of Susan and the late Dick Mulsow. She is the…

Vere Robert and Maude Irene Stringer Burns, Iola, will celebrate 65 years of marriage on May 28. The couple were married May 28, 1949, in Hepler. The Rev. Cecil Orr officiated. The couple will celebrate…

William Glenn “Curly” and Jeanne Ann Percy will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on June 12. Curly Percy, son of Mack and Pearl Percy, and Jeanne Masterson, daughter of Frank and Leona Masterson, were united…