Twenty-one young baseball enthusiasts learned the finer mechanics of pitching Saturday and Sunday during a clinic provided by Demetrius Mitchell, a standout pitcher-turned-coach at the college level, most recently at Alabama A&M. Tryouts for SEK…

Small towns often get a bad rap because they don’t appear to be the “bargain” that some people assume them to be. The tradeoff to doing without big museums and parks, airports, athletic stadiums and…

Splintered Crews utilize a track hoe and other heavy equipment to remove trees, brush, rocks and other debris from land near Kentucky  and Monroe streets Friday, where the new Iola Elementary School construction will begin…

Iola Middle School eighth-graders Isaac Hopkins, foreground, and Kyser Nemecek take part in a passing drill this morning during the IMS summer football camp. Roughly 30 seventh- and eighth-graders have been taking part in the…

Monday’s make-up results Jr. Bitty Ball Hammerson Ready Mix 5 Iola Transmission 14 Hits for Hammerson: B. Bennett, 2 1b; J. Emerson, 2 1b; E. Higginbotham, 3 1b; J. Mueller, 2 1b, 1 2b; C.…

Tuesday’s Results Bitty Ball Iola  Pharmacy 21 Piqua State Bank 3 Hits for Pharmacy: M. Franklin, 1 1b, 1 2b, 2 HR; R. Hall, 3 1b, 1 2b; K. Woods, 4 1b; C. Coffield, 4…

When Judy Baker first learned she’d received a grant for $8,609 to expand the school district’s free summer food program, she wondered how she could spend it all. “I figured I had six weeks’ time,”…

The coronavirus pandemic has bumped up the costs for a new science and technology center at Iola High School, which in turn means architects have had to bump down a few of their plans. The…

Voters across the state have two questions for Rep. Roger Marshall as he campaigns for a seat in the U.S. Senate. “Folks want to know when it’s going to get back to normal,” Marshall said,…

In October 1960, at the request of Register sportswriter Bud Roberts, I wrote a preview of Humboldt High’s basketball team. Then, I had no inkling I would take Roberts’ place, and stay well over five…