“I can barely contain my excitement,” said Robin Schallie at the news that the Iola Chamber of Commerce is relocating to the downtown square. “We’re shooting for April 10,” said Schallie, who serves as Chamber…

Tammy Dieker’s labor of love has been equal parts renovation, exploration and perspiration. Dieker, who took over management of The Market Place Flea Market on Jan. 1 from Laura Rasa, has spent the past month…

Downtown businesses celebrated the season with the Annual Holiday Block Party. They had discounts, prizes and more.

Clarification: A previous version of this article regarding a haunted house planned at the Shannon Building at 20 W. Jackson needed some clarification. A second haunted house, The Slaughterhouse, also is planned for Oct. 22-23…

Iola Reads and others paid tribute to first responders and those lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. About 200 came to walk around the courthouse square, wearing lanyards that represented a first responder who…

Staying safe can be fun. That’s the idea behind Family Safety Night, an event offered from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday on the square by the Allen County Multi-Agency Team (ACMAT) in conjunction with the…

A team from Rock’n M Builders, Nevada, Mo., work in concert with Cleaver’s Farm and Home, Chanute, in constructing a new community shelter house on the Humboldt square. The Humboldt Lions Club raised over $20,000…

Humboldt was buzzing with activity this week. Jeremy Bulk drives a mini-excavator in order to prepare the site for a new community pavilion on the southwest corner of the Humboldt square. 

A late-season snow falls on Iola’s downtown square Tuesday morning.

Downtown Iola won’t shine quite as brightly this holiday season due to a decision by local “elf,” Tracy Keagle, to forgo decorating the courthouse lawn with an array of colorfully lit trees and a giant…