Iola Public Library celebrates Women’s History Month Saturday, March 9, at 2 p.m. with a free family program from the Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum, Chanute. Curator Jacquelyn Borgeson Zimmer will highlight the life…

Dear Carolyn: The last time we visited our son and daughter-in-law, we brought along a lovely play kitchen for our granddaughter, which we’d been saving for 25 years. It was last used by our daughter…

The weather is warming up, which is a sign that it is almost time for Walk Kansas. Walk Kansas is an eight-week healthy lifestyle challenge that will inspire you to lead a healthier life by…

HUMBOLDT — Levi Herrera of Concrete Materials, Inc., in Kansas City, successfully defended his champion status during Monarch Cement Co.’s annual Truck Rodeo on Saturday. The event is a way for cement truck drivers from…

TUESDAY  Yoga class, 5:30, LaHarpe City Hall; Allen Community College Trustees meeting, 6 p.m. “Fury on the Plains,” presented by the National Weather Service on severe weather events. 6:30 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center Wednesday…

Iola Reads volunteers and Iola Public Library staff served up chili, cornbread, “cowboy caviar” and more during a Chuck Wagon Dinner and line dancing event on Friday at the Dr. John Silas Bass North Community…

Carlyle Presbyterian Church Steve Traw’s message, “Like a Mustard Seed,” from Matthew 13:31-32 concerned the tiny mustard seed. The seeds are the smallest of all seeds, yet the plant grows between 15-30 feet high.  This…

Colony Christian Church Pastor Chase Riebel’s message Sunday was “Feeding the Five Thousand,” from John 6:1-5. Jesus was able to feed a crowd of 5,000 with five loaves of bread and two fish, illiustrating that…

February brought us above normal temperatures. I’ve heard the frogs singing on several days, which is always a welcome sound to my ears because I know spring is near. When the nice, warm days grace…

Dear Carolyn: I’ve always found my in-laws stressful — particularly my mother-in-law. She is consistently negative, follows an EXTREMELY rigid diet and is critical about everything we eat if it doesn’t fit her diet. My…