Iola High School music students are hitting the home stretch of a busy — and successful — fall campaign.Under the tutelage of new band instructor Ranie Wahlmeier, a combined 20 IHS band, jazz band and…

Iola Community Theatre’s excellently cast staging of Jack Heifner’s “Vanities” enters its final run this weekend with a 7 p.m. show on Friday and a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Set against the backdrop of…

Marmaton Valley High School teacher (and alum) Halie Luken makes her directorial debut in a hilarious staging of Don Zolidis’s murder-mystery “The Bold, the Young, and the Murdered.” The madcap plot concerns the cast and…

“I am afraid. Not of life or death or nothingness … but of wasting it as if I had never been.”Charles Gordon, “Flowers For Algernon” It’s human nature to wonder how life would be, say,…

On Tuesday, Iola Middle School hosted its annual wrestling tournament at the high school. The Ponies competed against Anderson County, Burlington, Frontenac, Central Heights, Coffeyville, Prairie View, Chanute, Jayhawk-Linn, Pittsburg SE Cherokee and Uniontown. Be…

Robert Harry Griffin, 87, Iola, died Monday, Nov. 6, 2017 at Medicalodges of Fort Scott.  Inurnment services for Bob will be at a later date.  

New ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran inched closer to reality Tuesday morning. Allen County commissioners reviewed one plan submitted by Cleaver Farm and Supply of Chanute for a 40-by-80-foot metal building.  The estimate, including…

Steve Fitzgerald is confident Americans’ strong support for President Donald Trump’s agenda will translate to victory for him in his bid for U.S. Congress representing the 2nd District. Fitzgerald, in his second term as a…

Allen Countians made their choices in a variety of city and school board elections, although what they said in some cases still won’t be known for a few days. A plethora of races with no…

Camille Wood, left, and Lizzie Myers rehearse a scene from “Complaint Department and Lemonade,” that Humboldt High School students will stage for senior citizens in a dinner theater setting Thursday evening and then for the…