Around Town

Are you interested in starting your own vegetable transplants or flowers from seed? If so, join the Southwind Extension District for “Let’s Get Growing,” a how-to workshop full of tips to ensure seed starting success. …

Three Iola Middle School sixth-graders were honored for their essays “My Pledge To Our Veterans” Monday. The students were named the winners of the LaHarpe Willis J. Ross Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 6324…

Junior Project Leader Mallory Heim and Project Leader Kelci Botts held the regular meeting for Prairie Rose Cloverbuds Jan. 12. They learned about the 4-H Pledge, motto, colors, and emblem. The cloverbuds started working on their…

Students attending Allen Community College, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, were at Marmaton Valley Elementary School Friday to hand out bag tags to students in honor of MVs 100th day of classes. 

Workers are remodeling a 1901 building on the corner of Bridge and 9th streets to make it into a restaurant and bed and breakfast. The building was the Bailey Hotel in its first life. It…

Allen opened as Iola Junior College in 1923, in the third floor of Iola High School, before later becoming known as Allen County Community College after its new campus on North Cottonwood Street opened in…

Allen County Sheriff Robert M. Allman had an operation which may make medical history. At Baylor University Hospital in Houston a surgeon replaced about six inches of his aorta artery with an artery from a…

Lesa Cole, children’s librarian at the Iola Public Library will speak to the Allen County Retired School Personnel group at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Allen Community College Board Room at the north…

Elementary School COLONY — Crest Elementary School has announced its second-quarter honor rolls for the 2022-23 school year. Second  grade All A’s — Tyler Edgerton, Skylar Valentine and Penny Womelsdorf. Second grade A/B — Owen…

Principal’s Honor Roll (All A’s) Eighth grade — Karoline Covey, Kamry DeLaTorre, Rylee Ellison, Connor Gray, Kinley Hart, Lakyn Meadows, Thatcher Mueller and Jack Works. Seventh grade — Alexa Ellis, Aalyn Hillmon, Maelee Powell, Ty…