Month: November 2024

Iola Reads offered a chance to meet Moose, a trained therapy dog that looks like the dog featured in this year’s children’s book selection, the “Ranger in Time” series, at the Allen County Historical Society…

Hearing loss affects millions of Americans. In fact, by age 75 over half of adults will have some form of hearing loss. Signs of hearing loss include having trouble hearing speech in noisy places, finding…

Barbara Landis/Nyquist and Gary McIntosh were married Oct. 28, 1964, in Iola’s First Presbyterian church by Rev. Thomas Nyquist and Rev. Paul Pence.  This October, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Columbia, Mo., with…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump directed violent rhetoric at former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, criticizing her past support for military action and saying she should face “nine barrels shooting at her” as a result, his…

LA CYGNE — Prairie View High’s Buffalos stuck to the ground Friday, and in so doing, put an emphatic end to Iola High’s football season. Prairie View racked up nearly 500 yards of total offense…

“So what?” are the two words that might still haunt former Vice President Mike Pence today. But it was almost four years ago, when a mock gallows had been constructed on the U.S. Capitol grounds…

Two weeks before the presidential election, two of the nation’s largest newspapers dropped their policies of endorsing presidential candidates.  The owners of The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are multi-billionaires who have no…

Dear Editor,  On July 31, 2024, before 9 a.m., I fell at my home and broke both bones in my right leg right below the knee cap.  I was transported to the Iola hospital by…

CHIVA, Spain. (AP) — The death toll from historic flash floods in Spain climbed to least 205 people Friday, with many more believed to be missing, as the initial shock gave way to anger, frustration…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s deep partisan divisions extend to trust in the vote tallies for this year’s election, as a new poll finds that Republicans are much more skeptical than Democrats that ballots will…