Dear editor, To the person who ran over and killed our English bulldog Saturday evening between 6:15 and 6:30 in front of our house at 1235 1800 St., and didn’t have the common courtesy or…

Dear editor,I see in the paper Iola is wanting their local builders to build the housing stock. One of the first things you need to fix is the value of the homes not just in…

Dear editor,The more I think about cutting food stamps, the more unfair it seems to be.Congress has been pounding into people’s heads that anyone using food stamps or on assistance, is just too lazy to…

Dear editor, To the owners in the Chanute area who left a beautiful purebred black cocker spaniel: I saw her at daybreak, running up the driveway toward the veterinarian clinic where I work on Mondays.…

To the editor, Recently, I had the misfortune to awaken quite ill. My wife called 911, and my misfortune ceased. The EMTs and my wife got me to the hospital’s  ER here in Iola. The…

Dear editor,Yes, you can legally float down three rivers in Kansas. The Kansas River, the Missouri and the Arkansas. However, that is all.All other rivers and streams are privately owned. Landowners have control to the…

On the morning after my dad Bob Sharp’s funeral, the Oswald Chambers devotion I read compared faith to a river. “Regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be, we…

Our family wanted to give a big thank you to the Iola Public Library, its staff, and volunteers who did the “Great Race Iola Style” on Aug. 10. Our whole family competed as a team…

Dear editor,I am concerned the merger of the EMS services could result in services being affected countywide. As of now Iola does not have type I EMS service. It relies on Allen County for type…

We attended the City of Iola meeting Monday evening. David Toland talked about Iola’s need for expansion. We were attending in opposition of the rezoning on North Kentucky from single family dwellings to multiple family…