It’s a good thing fans were wearing face masks at Iola Middle School’s season-opening volleyball matches Thursday.  Otherwise, they likely would have spent the afternoon biting their fingernails to the nubs, with several tightly fought…

Fans arrived at the Riverside Park football stadium expecting a football game Thursday. What they saw was a veritable Mustang stampede. Iola Middle School opened the 2020 season with a 58-14 romp over visiting Osawatomie,…

An Iola Middle School student has tested positive for COVID-19, giving the district its first test of new protocols designed to limit the spread of illness. The student and any close contacts will not be…

Jason Coke, Iola Middle School’s new assistant principal and athletic director, worked at an afterschool program for Crawford County Mental Health while in college. It turned out to be a life-changing experience. It’s not only…

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…

Iola Middle School announced its year-end awards this week for the 2019-20 school year. The American Legion Awards, presented to one eighth-grade girl and one eighth-grade boy, went to Abigail Meiwes and Japheth Rutoh. They…

CARBONDALE — The third time wasn’t the charm the Iola High Fillies needed Thursday night to overcome Santa Fe Trail. Despite scoring only one field goal in the first and third quarter, the Fillies were…

For 24 years, Iola Middle School history teacher Mark Boyd delivered his lessons while standing at the front of his classroom. He looked upon a sea of rambunctious eighth grade faces, watching through the course…

The Iola Ponies hosted Burlington on Thursday night in middle school hoops action. While none of the four Iola teams were able to garner a victory, it was a learning experience they can carry forward. …

Iola students Kalibre Smith, Payton Houk and Ursula Billings perform a piece Tuesday evening during their strings concert at the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Elizabeth Cunningham directed the program, accompanied…