Iola City Council members approved a request Monday evening to assist with water fees in Humanity House’s community garden. Georgia Masterson of the non-profit requested the city provide $1,000 of free water at the garden.…

Iola Public Library celebrates Women’s History Month Saturday, March 9, at 2 p.m. with a free family program from the Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum, Chanute. Curator Jacquelyn Borgeson Zimmer will highlight the life…

The book or the movie. A debate often follows when asked which is better.  When it comes to the story of “True Grit,” Iola Reads is offering a chance to discover the answer for yourself.…

The Iola Public Library is looking to turn a little-used asset into a gift for the community. Just out the library’s back door is the Flewharty-Powell Annex, the home of the late Nancy Flewharty and…

Area youth had to wind and find their way through Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Maze on Friday evening at the Iola Public Library. The maze was offered as part of the library’s annual Halloween event, also…

The Friends of Iola Public Library volunteers were hard at it Thursday morning putting donated items in place for the annual Friends Book Sale. The fundraiser for the library began Thursday evening and runs from…

Iolan Stan Grigsby usually has two responses when somebody asks him about astronomy: “Look up, and look it up.” Grigsby, a retired physicist and instructor, spoke to roughly 25 or so Iolans at the Iola…

The Iola Public Library will host a solar eclipse event on the front lawn Saturday, Oct. 14 at 11 a.m. The partial eclipse begins here at 10:20 a.m. and reaches magnitude at 11:45 a.m. when…

“Let Freedom Read” is this year’s theme for Banned Books Week, which takes place Oct. 1-7. Banned Books Week is a time for the Iola Public Library and libraries across the country to champion everyone’s…

The Iola Public Library will look at how Kansans contributed to a civil rights movement for the LGBTQ community Saturday. The library will host speaker Brandon West to discuss “Pride: From Stonewall to Small Town…