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- Shawnee Mission board adopts wellness approach
- April 12, 2006
- Shawnee Mission school administrators say they want to give healthier food options to students.
- Company thrives while providing fun
- April 12, 2006
- Spring has sprung, and with it a host of outdoor fund-raisers, carnivals and picnics — all of which mean that the products of one Shawnee company will be seen all over.
- Wonderscope nets $130,000 grant
- April 12, 2006
- What better way to learn about the ocean than to create a miniature sea, or to learn about space than by making a rocket?
- Mumps cases on the rise
- April 12, 2006
- With reports of mumps cases in Kansas, school and health officials in Johnson County are on the lookout. One case of mumps was reported in Johnson County on Wednesday.
- Few families go back as far as the Earnshaws
- April 12, 2006
- They have owned a blacksmith shop, a grocery store and the post office; in fact, at one time or another they owned much of the land in what is now eastern Shawnee.
- 3rd grader finds out what it’s like
- April 12, 2006
- Spelling the word “principal” is one of the many accomplishments Madeline Grube learned during her day as principal.
- Jaguars bump record to 7-1
- April 12, 2006
- With his team trailing 1-0 to Parsons entering the bottom of the fifth inning last Saturday, Mill Valley baseball coach Carl Garrett decided he didn’t like his team’s focus and approach.
- Lady Jags win 4th straight
- April 12, 2006
- After Mill Valley played North Kansas City last Friday, Mill Valley coach Arlan Vomhof went out for some pizza with his neighbor, the North Kansas City coach.
- Jags claim 2nd at Blazer Invitational
- April 12, 2006
- Senior Travis Hackathorn entered last Monday’s Blazer Invitational as Mill Valley’s No. 4 ranked golfer.
- SMNW to tee off at home meet
- April 12, 2006
- Shawnee Mission Northwest boys golf coach Rich Wiley isn’t ready to pass judgement on his team just yet.
- Lady Jaguars take two from Lansing
- April 12, 2006
- Senior Kelly Griffin beat Lansing with one swing of the bat — or more like half of a swing.
- Scratching records
- Mill Valley junior breaks three school records at Jaguar Invitational
- April 12, 2006
- Justin Woods breaking school records is starting to get repetitive.
- Four-win week moves Northwest to 6-0
- April 12, 2006
- Behind the hot hitting of senior third baseman Billy Waldman and senior designated hitter Brandon Cox, the Shawnee Mission Northwest baseball team claimed its sixth win in a row by downing Shawnee Mission South, 7-2, Monday evening at Johnson County 3&2 Complex. The win moves the Cougars to 6-0 for the 2006 campaign.
- Opinion: Good times ahead
- April 12, 2006
- I’ve spent the last five years of my life looking ahead to high school sporting events and planning out which games to attend in hopes of covering the local high school scene as thoroughly as possible.
- Students ready to change the world
- April 12, 2006
- Students at Monticello Trails Middle School want to put an end to homelessness. And animal cruelty. And obesity. And child abuse.
- Police sting nails 14 for selling to minors
- April 12, 2006
- Shawnee police last week arrested 14 people at 13 locations in a span of 45 minutes for selling alcoholic beverages to minors.
- Engagement: Sophiea-Scott
- April 12, 2006
- Anniversary: Ralph and Betty Bodam
- April 12, 2006
- Obituary: Carrie Ethel Shirley
- April 12, 2006
- Obituary: Dorothy Louise Dowden
- April 12, 2006
- Obituary: William Charles Wesley Benson
- April 12, 2006
- Obituary: Kathryn L. Barton
- April 12, 2006
- Opinion: We could do better
- April 12, 2006
- One would be hard-put to claim a mandate after the recent city elections.
- Opinion: An orderly transition
- April 12, 2006
- The proof of American democracy appears not in what happens when someone wins an election, but when somebody loses. And what happens is, essentially, nothing. That is, the loser typically accepts the voters’ judgment and goes on his or her way, merry or not.
- Guest Commentary: Mission impossible: the search for a college
- Preparing for college is hard enough; it becomes that much harder when cost is thrown into the equation
- April 12, 2006
- (First published in the March 10 issue of the Northwest Passage, the high school publication of Shawnee Mission Northwest.)
- Man gets 3+ years for fatal accident
- April 12, 2006
- Jenny Harris said her husband was a giving man.
- Opinion: Transparency a worthy goal
- April 12, 2006
- Just a month ago in this space we took the Kansas Legislature to task for turning away from the goal of open government.
- Council member on a mission
- April 12, 2006
- Ward III City Council member Dawn Kuhn is concerned that the citizens of Shawnee don’t know their city government — at least, not like they should.
- Easter egg hunt a success
- April 12, 2006
- Bundled up in a coat to face the rather cold winds and wearing a pair of pink bunny ears, Stephanie Land, 4, was ready for the hunt.
- Couple seen as ‘an invaluable resource’
- April 12, 2006
- Stewart Nelson describes how he and wife, Jean, got involved at Wonderscope Children’s Museums in simple terms.
- Study to gauge access to site for development
- Engineering firm will look at area west of 435 between Parkway and Johnson Drive
- April 12, 2006
- With recent inquiries into two key properties the city of Shawnee hopes to see developed, the Shawnee City Council Monday approved a study that will help determine how to provide access to the properties.
- Prairie Ridge teacher named district nominee
- April 12, 2006
- Instead of looking at pictures, Carrie Mugridge’s students draw their own while she reads them a book, “Twilight comes Twice.”
- Sacred Heart officially opens new wing
- April 12, 2006
- Students at Sacred Heart Catholic School won’t have to attend any more classes in hallways or closets.
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