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- Newcomers battle for seat on Board
- Meyer, Taylor up for De Soto’s Position 6
- March 30, 2005
- Position 6, De Soto USD 232
- Six-year veteran hopes to hold on to Board seat
- Thomas to be challenged by Gracy on Tuesday
- March 30, 2005
- Position 5, De Soto USD 232
- De Soto resident faces 14-year Board member
- Johnson, Allenbrand on ballot for school board
- March 30, 2005
- Position 4, De Soto USD 232
- Jamison guides Jags to 19-0
- March 30, 2005
- From 1990 to 1992, Alonzo Jamison made his name at the University of Kansas as one of the school's greatest defenders and the centerpiece of a Jayhawk team that upset Indiana, Arkansas, and North Carolina en route to the national title game in 1991.
- Mill Valley standout elects to add chapter to family tradition
- March 30, 2005
- On March 15, Mill Valley's Amber Keith continued her family's collegiate legacy and signed with Baker University.
- Dream becomes reality for Lady Jaguar senior
- March 30, 2005
- From the time she began playing in the fourth grade until she dug her last ball as a high school athlete this year, Mill Valley's Carly Jordan has had one goal in mind — to play college volleyball. Often viewed as undersized, Jordan has honed her defensive skills by playing competitively year round, and earned the attention of several colleges over the course of last season with her energy, court-presence and mind-boggling digs.
- Cougars vow to be competitive
- Unsure of exactly what to expect, SM Northwest promises to play hard
- March 30, 2005
- If Shawnee Mission Northwest baseball coach Rich Kuzydym has his way this season, no catcher in the Sunflower League will rest with Cougar runners on base.
- New-look Lady Jags aim to be aggressive
- March 30, 2005
- Mill Valley's softball team will have a new look this season.
- Lady Cougars eager for shot at the title
- March 30, 2005
- Hoping to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2004 season, the Shawnee Mission Northwest softball team hopes to return to the elite of the state.
- Play Ball!!!
- Shawnee schools throw out first pitches of 2005 baseball, softball seasons
- March 30, 2005
- Last year's Mill Valley baseball team finished 19-2, won the Kaw Valley league championship, and was arguably the best team ever fielded in the school's young history.
- Williams leaving post as Hocker Grove principal
- March 30, 2005
- Gillian Williams sees the job she will begin this fall a little like an extension of her job as Hocker Grove Middle School principal.
- Spanish teacher steps up to North No. 2
- March 30, 2005
- Eric Rembold is next up in the administrative shuffle at Shawnee Mission North High School. Rembold, a Spanish teacher at North since 1999, will become the school's newest associate principal.
- Coach will be glad to see old gym floor go
- March 30, 2005
- If players know exactly where they are, a couple of dead spots in their school's basketball floor could almost be a home-court advantage.
- ‘The play’s the thing’ this weekend
- Mill Valley, De Soto high school students take the stage
- March 30, 2005
- There will be plenty of rumors floating around this weekend at Mill Valley High School. Mill Valley students will perform a farce sharing the name of the gossip — Neil Simon's “Rumors” — at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school's Little Theater.
- Obit: Maudetta D. Zielinski
- March 30, 2005
- Obit: Floyd B. Jacobs
- March 30, 2005
- Obit: Jeanette Hartegan
- March 30, 2005
- Obit: Dorothy Caroline Anderson
- March 30, 2005
- Shawnee veteran was German POW
- March 30, 2005
- Ralph Barksdale, a Shawnee resident and World War II veteran, was just 17 years old when he went off to fight the Germans and, like all growing boys, he needed milk. His German captors, who kept Barksdale as a prisoner of war for nine brutal months, didn't give him any.
- New walking tours will focus on early Shawnee sites
- March 30, 2005
- In the early 1880s, Dr. J.C. Maloney circulated a petition, asking for money to create a better public square in Shawnee.
- Letter: The AARP position
- March 30, 2005
- Opinion: K-7 planning not so simple
- March 30, 2005
- City moving with 3 parks
- March 30, 2005
- With four major parks and recreation projects in some stage of development this summer, the Shawnee City Council had a lot to talk about at its meeting Monday evening.
- ‘State of the County’ not too bad, chair says
- March 30, 2005
- Annabeth Surbaugh, Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Commissioners, had very little bad news to report in her State of the County address Tuesday.
- Shawnee city skate park touted as ‘a little more’
- March 30, 2005
- It's not going to be a typical slab of concrete. In fact, it won't even be a typical skate park. As several skateboarders young and not-so-young found out March 23, the 11,500 square-foot skateboard park planned for the southeast corner of Swarner Park is planned to be something exceptional, maybe even the best around.
- City waits for shoe to drop as gasoline prices rise
- March 30, 2005
- In the energy crisis of the 1970s, Captain Ron Copeland remembers former Shawnee Police Chief Charlie Stump ordering officers to drive no more than 50 miles per shift.
- City Council signs off on road choices
- March 30, 2005
- The Shawnee City Council Monday questioned which future road construction project might be the most urgent for the city and just how to go about the project.
- ‘R2D2’ develops bedside manner
- March 30, 2005
- A new addition to the staff at Shawnee Mission Medical Center makes R2D2 seem surprisingly less far-fetched.
- Obit: Dale E. Schneider
- March 30, 2005
- School board other hopefuls on ballot
- March 30, 2005
- Though no major city races have captivated Shawnee residents for the past three months, there will be some big decisions for Shawnee voters in the general election April 5.
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Talking points
How often do you go to the library?
“I almost never go there at all — only with my wife, Kim. She checks out, I’d say, at least three books a week. The kids go with her, and she teaches them how to find things.”
