If at first you don’t succeed, go bigger. A development company hoping to convert Iola’s three former elementary schools into apartments is expanding plans for its first phase of construction.  The goal is to make…

Since it opened last fall, the Iola Elementary School has incorporated the history of schools that came before it. District officials moved a historic bell thought to have hung in a tower at the very…

Three juveniles are believed responsible for vandalism that occurred in the old Lincoln Elementary School building over the weekend. Iola police officers said the juveniles — ages 16, 14 and 9 — are suspected of…

Turns out there’s still a lot of need for old school buildings. Since USD 257 moved out of three older elementary schools, two agencies have asked to use the buildings.  On Monday, the ANW Special…

Traffic around Iola’s three former elementary schools will flow differently in the coming days as city crews revamp signage around each of the buildings. Iola Police Chief Jared Warner provided a list of the changes…

Laura Caillouet-Weiner got a little emotional on the last day of school. After more than 40 years, she’s saying goodbye to Jefferson Elementary School.  She’ll keep teaching, but next year she’ll be moving to the…

Iola High School FFA student Abigail Meiwes cut an apple into quarters and asked a group of fourth-graders to imagine it representing the Earth.  She asked them to guess how much of the apple represented…

Barry Geertsen, a park ranger with the Fort Scott National Historic Site, speaks to Lincoln Elementary School students Tuesday about the fort’s history and other interesting tidbits as part of the ongoing Iola Reads program.…

Iola got a sweetheart deal on Valentine’s Day, as school board members learned a Kansas City company wants to convert all three of  its elementary schools into housing, an investment worth about $20 million. At…

As construction progresses on Iola’s new elementary school — it’s scheduled to open in August — the district’s focus shifts once again to the fate of the three existing grade school properties. Bids will be…