“The year 2020 will be remembered for COVID-19. But in Iola, it will also be remembered as the year Peerless Products came to town,” predicted Iola Mayor Jon Wells at Tuesday’s celebration of the company’s…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Anthony W. Campbell, 26, Iola, Monday for suspicion of rape, soliication of rape with a victim under the age of 14, possession of child pornography, promoting obscenity (displaying or…

Ann Pomatto doesn’t really think about the historic nature of her latest coaching venture. She’s too busy learning. Pomatto, who works with ANW Special Education Cooperative students at Iola High School, signed on this fall…

Out of 99 remote learning students in USD 257, about 27 should be back in school, administrators said Monday. About a third of remote learning students haven’t been performing well, they said. There’s no guarantee…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration moved closer Monday to awarding $52 million in contracts broadening the reach of COVID-19 testing and slashing time required to get results as coronavirus cut a wider path through…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s volleyball team, which hasn’t played in a state volleyball tournament in 41 years, must wait one more day for the honor. Wintry weather forced school officials to postpone Tuesday’s Class…

Dorothy (Pemberton) Scovill, age 92, passed away Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Dorothy was born April 12, 1928, to Alfred and Edna (Wisdom) Pemberton in Kansas City. She…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s football season ended one game sooner than expected when a member of the team tested positive over the weekend for COVID-19. In response, the county’s health director instructed the football team…

Beth Ann Tinsley, age 77, of Bronson, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at Moran Manor Nursing Home in Moran. She was born Jan. 17, 1943, in Moran, the daughter of Francis Bradford Glasgow and…

For many of us, next Tuesday’s election can’t come soon enough. The country has been locked in a seemingly eternal presidential campaign for close to two years now. It’s been a particularly nasty campaign season.…