Thrive Allen County is hosting a Community Conversation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, at the Gas Community Building.  Discussion will include what is going well in Gas and what can be improved.  Residents are…

Patrons of all ages can meet and greet poets, listen to poems, attend a poetry workshop or get a poem for their pocket. Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry…

Hi Carolyn: I can’t move past this. I have two teen daughters, and neither one has a good friend group. They don’t do any of the things I associate with “normal” teen stuff, such as…

Driver injured Cody A. Beard, 35, Fayette, Ala., was westbound on U.S. 54 Sunday, about two miles east of Moran, when his semitractor-trailer unit went off the roadway, striking a culvert. The truck and trailer…

Driver arrested Iola police officers arrested Rebecca Stewart, 31, for suspected possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, driving without a license, no liability insurance and improper registration during a traffic stop Saturday evening at the…

Iola Elementary School fifth-grader Bradley Cooper took first place in the Allen County Spelling Bee on Friday afternoon, Feb. 24, at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. In second place was Thatcher Mueller, an eighth-grader at…

All A’s Eighth grade — Karline Covey, Kamry DeLaTorre, Rylee Ellison, Hadley Galloway, Connor gray, Gavin Gunderman, Kinley Hart, Lakyn Meadows, Thatcher Mueller and Jack Works. Seventh grade — Kolton Hanson, Jordan Hencey, Adalyn Hillmon,…

Iola split its speech and drama students into two teams, one competing at Marmaton Valley High School; the other in Pittsburg. The results were impressive. Iola took home first place at the Pittsburg Invitational, nabbing…

Over the past several weeks, I have offered a program called Gray for a Day to several Family and Consumer Science high school classes across the Southwind District.  The main goal of this program is…

Corn planting is right around the corner for the Southwind District. It is time to consider adding a residual herbicide to your corn, weed management plan. Residual herbicides that kill weed seeds/seedlings as they germinate…