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- KU fans prepare for Sweet 16
- March 25, 2008
- Brian Long, of Shawnee, has filled out an NCAA bracket since 1988 when he was 12 years old.
- Shawnee author in Amazon contest’s Top 10
- March 25, 2008
- John Ring entered his manuscript to Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest on what one might call a whim.
- NW teacher wins $10,000
- March 25, 2008
- Shawnee Mission Northwest High School English teacher Lindsay Kincaid is a 2008 Best Buy Teach Award winner.
- Records show some candidates don’t always go to the polls
- March 25, 2008 in print edition on A5
- Shawnee City Council and mayoral candidates hope to get the support of voters, but when it comes to their own visits to the polls, their attendance varies.
- TMS students to compete
- March 25, 2008
- Teams from Trailridge Middle School will compete April 14 in the state Future Problem Solvers Competition in Hutchinson, Kan.
- Meeting to discuss drinking
- March 25, 2008
- Shawnee Mission Community and Youth Coalition will present a town hall meeting to inform community members about the effect of underage drinking.
- Bid spurs heated discussion at City Hall
- March 25, 2008 in print edition on A2
- A topic that recently led to arguments among the Shawnee City Council members, mayor and city manager caused discord again at Monday’s Council meeting.
- MVHS play has deeper message
- March 25, 2008
- For senior Katie Badger, Mill Valley High School’s spring play “You Can’t Take it With You,” is about more than just kooky characters. “It’s probably the most challenging script we’ve had to work with,” said Badger, who plays Mrs. Kolenkhov. “There’s this whole underlying message. As a senior, I am trying to decide what I want to do with my life.”
- A healthy future
- Bio-med program helps North students decide if medical careers are right for them
- March 25, 2008
- When Tom Porter went to college he didn’t like doctors. “I didn’t want to be a doctor,” he said. “I wanted to be a homestead farmer. I thought doctors were overpaid and held in way too high esteem socially.”
- Meyers touts efforts to unite Shawnee, says he’s ready to lead in second term
- March 25, 2008
- In his 2004 campaign, Shawnee Mayor Jeff Meyers said one of his goals was to unite the entire city. No more, he said, should people see it as east Shawnee or west Shawnee.
- Challenger says time won’t be issue if Shawnee voters elect him as mayor
- March 25, 2008
- Mayoral challenger Dan Pflumm says, “Anyone who says I don’t have the time is not in my shoes.”
- Family relies on faith in crisis
- March 25, 2008
- At first, Josh Putthoff thought his 2 1/2-year-old son’s black eyes were just the result of a kid being a kid. It wasn’t until Gabe Putthoff’s regular visit to the eye doctor that his parents discovered what was going on. Their son had tumor in his sinuses caused by neuroblastoma.
- Students find more to break than fun, sun
- March 25, 2008
- This marked the third year that Oceans of Mercy has taken students on a spring break trip to South Africa, and this trip lasted 12 days, with the group leaving March 12 and returning Monday morning.
- Maranatha baseball team hopes to do more with less in 2008
- March 25, 2008
- Six returning letter winners, including three pitchers, is a reason to make Maranatha Academy baseball coach Melvin Moyer smile when thinking of the upcoming 2008 season.
- Missed opportunities
- Mill Valley baseball team loses to Bishop Ward 3-2 in season-opening game
- March 25, 2008
- Mill Valley pitcher Curtis Peavler said he felt the jitters associated with being an opening-day starter on Monday in a 3-2 loss to Bishop Ward High School. “Yeah, I was really nervous beforehand, it was my first start on varsity against a good team,” he said.
- Maranatha girls track team returns top runners
- March 25, 2008
- Maranatha Academy track coach Bernie Zarda has lofty expectations for his 2008 team, and with good reason. The Eagles return more than 20 letter winners from a 2007 team that took several athletes to state and returned with three medalists. Almost the entire girls team returns, including two regional champions and two state placers. Emily Smith returns after placing fourth at state in the 300-meter hurdles last year. She joins sophomore Keegan Williams, sixth in the pole vault at last year’s state championships, as two of the top Eagle returnees.
- SMNW won with chemistry in 2008
- March 25, 2008
- Ben Meseke has coached all kinds of players. The Shawnee Mission Northwest boys basketball coach has had players who’ve needed their egos stroked. He’s had players who’ve had issues with others on their team. He’s had players with academic and/or behavior issues. He’s had players who, for whatever reason, couldn’t buy into the team system. But not this season.
- Former players form baseball academy
- March 25, 2008
- Robert “Bob” Jones has been involved with baseball for 35 years as a coach and player. He has spent the last 14 years coaching the sport.
- The plight of Royals baseball fans
- March 25, 2008
- I will never forget the 1985 World Series, when the Kansas City Royals won the world title. I remember thinking the team would win every year. Six-year-olds just don’t know any better. I never imagined that it would be the Royals last world title for at least another 23 years. In retrospect, perhaps I took the Al Michaels “Motley for the title” call for granted.
- Plans progress for De Soto bond vote
- March 25, 2008
- De Soto USD 232 Board of Education members want a seventh elementary school and expansions to Mill Valley and De Soto High Schools on the district’s next bond referendum.
Talking points
Where is your favorite spot to view fireworks July 4?
“Home, sweet home. We like spending it at grandma’s house.”
