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- Workers gear up for Relay for Life
- Gear for Sports employees to field for teams for annual fundraise for cancer research
- June 10, 2008
- Over the past three weeks, Gear for Sport’s employees have embraced the effort to raise funds for the fight against cancer, thanks in large part to the main Relay For Life team organizer for Gear, Lori Dunn of Basehor.
- Weather, crowds smile on festival
- June 10, 2008
- If not remarkable for its weather - it never rained during the actual event hours, though clouds sometimes looked threatening - then Old Shawnee Days 2008 was certainly notable for its crowds.
- Shawnee Council outfits Justice Center
- Purchases OK’d as construction winds down
- June 10, 2008
- As Shawnee’s new Justice Center complex nears completion, new equipment to fill its buildings is starting to come in.
- Candidates fill fields for fall elections
- June 10, 2008
- In the 2008 political season, Shawnee voters will consider a countywide sales tax and at least one primary in August, along with a throng of local and statewide competitions this November.
- Brazilian firefighters learn ropes in state
- June 10, 2008
- Their day in Shawnee was part of a two-month-long visit to Kansas through an exchange program with the state and the American Fellows Program. The program matches international firefighters with fire departments that excel in their area of interest.
- Revised graduation requirements approved
- June 10, 2008
- Following changes to state graduation requirements made in 2005, the Shawnee Mission USD 512 Board of Education on Monday unanimously approved a revised policy for graduation requirements.
- De Soto teachers voting on offer
- June 10, 2008
- De Soto USD 232 teachers will receive an overall salary increase of 4.9 percent if the Board of Education and the De Soto Teacher’s Association both agree on a contract offer, said DTA president Nikki Leisten.
- Blacksmith at festival teaching trade to son
- June 10, 2008
- Lee Quaintance started working with iron as a child, but it wasn’t until he was an adult when he learned how to work with the metal the old-fashioned way.
- Letter: Parade problems
- June 10, 2008
- This year, the parade chairman and his staff informed the American Legion that they would not lead the parade. As a result, the American Legion and the American Legion Metropolitan Band were noticeably absent this year.
- Beal: Tempting the fates: a clarification
- June 10, 2008 in print edition on A4
- It’s occurred to me a couple of times recently that I may have tempted fate when I complained a few weeks ago that I’d never seen a tornado.
- Rooftop fire extinguished at SMNW
- June 10, 2008
- Two Shawnee fire crews responded about 7 p.m. Thursday after smoke was spotted coming from the roof of the Shawnee Mission Northwest High School gymnasium.
- Kline announces he will seek re-election as DA
- June 10, 2008
- Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline is running for re-election to the post.
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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!
