How Would the Area Economy Benefit from a Character Culture?

Round-up at the OK Correll by Jim Correll What would it mean for our area economy if all, or 50 percent or even 25 percent of our companies and organizations could grow and expand, even when the rest of the country is in recession? The affect would be amazing. A character culture in our companies [...]

Blue Jean marketing

Marketing Matters By Roger Buck, CDC Often I run into companies with the desire to practice better marketing however they say they lack the budget dollars to do so.  It’s the “chicken or the egg” story.   Do I wait for my business to pick up so I have some extra dollars to spend or do [...]

Charm Meets Industry in City of Iola

By Olive L. Sullivan IOLA — One of City Manager Judy Brigham’s favorite things about summer in Iola is the weekly farmers’ market and band concert. “My brother said it was like being in a Norman Rockwell painting, and it is, it really is,” she said. “We do it very well.” But small town charm [...]

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Pitts State Alumni News

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Iola: A Thumbnail History

By Southeast Kansas Business Journal, LLC Just as its sister towns in Southeast Kansas, Iola began as a group of settlers in the late 1800’s.  Many of the people who came here in 1859, moved from nearby Humboldt, Cofachique and the surrounding counties because they wanted to relocate their county seat.  They named the new [...]

Iola

Tavern on the Plaza

Address: 902 S. Walnut Phone: (620) 325-2300 www.tavernontheplaza.com Owner: Peter Berick Correction:  In our 1st print edition of The Southeast Kansas Business Journal featuring Coffeyville, we printed an incorrect address in our article entitled: “Don’t Skip Dessert at Tavern on the Plaza.”  The address listed here is the correct one.  We regret any inconvenience this [...]