Dear Chairwoman Renee Erickson and Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, We have been involved with trails for over 25 years, starting with the Prairie Spirit Rail Trail, which is now a state park.…

Dear editor, Spring cleaning is upon us!  If you find yourself cleaning out your garage, closets, attic, or basement this spring, the Allen County Historical Society would like for you to keep us in mind. …

Dear editor, Iola may not need a city flag. But if it does, the flag design should be determined by contest. Anyone with an Iola, Kan., address would be eligible to submit a design. Karan…

Dear editor, I would just like to remind everyone that spring is upon us, a time when things take root. It reminds me of how vicious words can grow and spread like poison ivy. Once…

Dear editor, I follow the news about Iola because I am an alumna of Iola High School.  This week, I noticed a post on Facebook listing the requirements to allow students to attend prom.  I…

Dear editor: I started working when I was 14-15 years old.  I did it because my mom was the bread winner of the family with my father was often absent for whatever reason.  I have…

Dear editor, Forty or more years ago Emerson Lynn began writing occasional Register editorials explaining how the financial integrity of Social Security could be maintained far into the future.  On Christmas Eve, I happened onto…

Dear editor, I am outraged that there are people in my home town that are so disrespectful. I put a new flower arrangement on my parents’ headstone in Highland Cemetery in September.  The first of…

Dear editor, I am sick and tired of people throwing their trash out the windows of vehicles along city streets, highways and country roads.  My husband, John Kress, even with stage 3 cancer, would walk…

Dear editor, The article about Iola Christmas lights had me harummping quite a bit.  It was known last year that the system was failing badly as lights were being pieced together then. But nothing was…