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- 10th Senate District: Familiar faces to compete for Republican nomination
- July 15, 2008
- Former 18th District Rep. Mary Pilcher Cook and current District 2 Kansas School Board member Sue Gamble have each won their share of elections in the past, and some see their current race as the typical battle of conservative vs. moderate.
- Dispatch seeks ‘Idol’ hopefuls
- July 15, 2008
- Are you auditioning for “American Idol” Aug. 8 in Kansas City, Mo.?
- 10th Senate District: Democrats’ stances differ on immigration, coal plants
- Democrats’ stances differ on coa
- July 15, 2008
- Michael Bolton of Shawnee and Pete Roman of Lenexa will face each other on the Aug. 5 ballot to move onto the general election, facing the winner of the Republican contest between Shawneeans Mary Pilcher Cook and Sue Gamble.
- Reimbursement to Council member included cost of alcohol at dinner
- July 15, 2008
- Despite his insistence last month to the contrary, a Shawnee City Council member was reimbursed for $78 worth of alcohol served during a March dinner with staffers of Kansas’ two U.S. senators in Washington, D.C.
- Letter: Independent prefers change
- July 15, 2008
- To the editor: I write referring to Valerie Kuhn’s letter of July 9 in which she flaunts her IQ and prodigious vocabulary to inject her reasons for equating Ted Bundy and Barack Obama.
- Beal: Wife bears witness to husband’s panic attack
- July 15, 2008
- One of the things they tell you to do in bear country is make lots of noise. This is based on the questionable-to-my-mind premise that bears are more scared of us than we are of them.
- Editorial: Steps a start to fend off nurse shortage
- July 15, 2008
- Efforts in Kansas to ease the ongoing nurses shortage deserve applause, but it seems that this problem isn’t likely to go away anytime soon.
- Advance voting gets under way
- July 15, 2008
- The Johnson County Election Office is reminding voters there are several ways to vote in advance in the Aug. 5 primary election.
- Shawnee residents vie for GOP nod to state BOE
- July 15, 2008
- Two Shawnee Republicans are vying for their party’s nomination for the District 2 seat on Kansas State Board of Education. Brandon Kenig, 23, will face Mary Ca Ralstin, 53, in the Aug. 5 primary for the right to appear as the GOP nominee on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
- Legendary KC madam visits Shawnee Town
- Character is latest in speaker series
- July 15, 2008
- Annie Chambers, Kansas City’s legendary madam, had a lot to say when she visited Town Hall last week. And the ears of the assembled ladies and gentlemen of Shawnee Town were burning when it was over.
- Hoops4Hope seeks teams for tourney
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B4
- The Hoops4Hope youth basketball tournament will take place July 25-27 at Shawnee Mission South High School.
- Northwest wrestlers scatter to summer camps
- July 15, 2008
- Each summer an exodus of sorts takes place in the Shawnee Mission Northwest athletic community, and it takes place under the impetus of wrestling coach Howard Newcomb.
- Hornets challenged by late night, early morning in Wichita
- July 15, 2008
- With aluminum bats in full use at the Shocker Classic baseball tournament in Wichita, the offense was plentiful and the pitching arms were used up in bunches.
- Jaguars close out summer baseball season
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B2
- After turning in a strong final stretch of the summer season, the Mill Valley Jaguars’ Under 18 and Under 16 baseball teams entered the state tournament at the 3&2 Baseball Complex full of optimism.
- KC BioMediX receives state funding
- July 15, 2008
- KC BioMediX of Shawnee will receive an equity investment of $400,000 to commercialize technologies developed at Kansas University for the care of infants born prematurely, the Kansas Bioscience Authority announced Tuesday at its annual meeting in Overland Park.
- Whitcomb leaves Mill Valley for college coaching position
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B2
- If the Mill Valley softball team makes a return trip to the Class 5A state tournament in 2009, it will do so with a roster almost identical to that of 2008. The coach will be different, however.
- Opponents, not weather, stop local squads at state
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B2
- When the Kansas USSSA Fastpitch Softball State Tournament began Friday in Shawnee, 113 teams began their quest to win state championships in eight age and class divisions.
- Wristen: T-shirt suit makes KU look silly
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Joe-College.com, a T-shirt store in downtown Lawrence that sells some humorous and some tasteless products, has been the subject of a nasty legal battle with KU over trademark infringement.
- Schloegel wins third SM Triathlon title
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B1
- A cool Saturday evening gave way to a perfect morning for racing Sunday, and the participants of the Shawnee Mission Triathlon responded with some of the most competitive racing in the event’s history.
- Shawnee girls are national champs
- July 15, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The Kansas University men’s basketball team wasn’t the only squad from the Sunflower State to go to Texas and come home with a national championship this year.
- Missing 90-year-old located
- July 15, 2008
- A 90-year-old Shawnee man missing since Sunday was found Monday 150 miles from home.
- Former prison case worker sentenced for lying about relationship with inmate
- 09:15 a.m., July 15, 2008 Updated 06:12 a.m.
- A former case manager with the federal Bureau of Prisons was sentenced for lying about a sexual affair she had with an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth.
- Shawnee among Money’s ‘Best Places to Live’
- July 15, 2008
- Shawnee is one of three Kansas cities named in Money magazine’s list of the top 100 best small cities.
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Point of View
Do you think it is important for Shawnee to be bicycle-friendly?
I think it’s important. I do love and use the paths, but it would be nice to have lanes so we could use bikes to run errands - saving gas!
