Dear Editor, I applaud Susan Lynn’s article titled “City council: like a bad movie,” which appeared in Saturday’s paper. Susan hit the nail on the head with her comments regarding city attorney Chuck Apt, plus…

Dear Editor, Susan Lynn’s editorial in the Weekender was very much appreciated.Now I have a few words to go along with it:Mr. Rowe and Mr. Callahan need to take a few lessons from past city…

Dear Editor:   The trustees of the soon to be built Allen County Hospital, representing current as well as future generations of Allen County residents, thank the elected officials of the City of Iola for their…

  To the Editor, Recently I was working at the corner of Jackson and Jefferson avenues. Stopping for coffee and a snack, I had a chance to observe the traffic where there were four stop…

Dear Mr. Shirley, As a citizen of Iola, I’d like to ask for some clarification on what happened at (Monday) night’s city council meeting. The council voted 5-4 to reinstate Judy Brigham’s benefits according to…

To the Forum:As a city commissioner, I had nine years’ experience working with Judy Brigham. I echo John McRae’s statement that she “never intentionally misled” me. She was always willing to address different points of…

Dear Editor, I, for one, applaud the City Council for doing their job.They found something wrong and fixed it.Isn’t that what we sent them to do? Sincerely,Vivian MichaelIola, Kan.

Dear Editor,American Red Cross helps military and disaster victimsThe American Red Cross was mandated by Congress in 1907 to do two things: To provide service to the military and to respond to disasters. That has…

I would like to say that I don’t understand how putting up a sign saying something like “USD 257 a School of Excellence” is insulting to other schools in our area. It is just saying…

Dear Editor, The 2011 Allen County Fair is now in the record books, and as the excitement dies down, we look back over the past year at all the hard work put in by the…