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- Interim superintendent on the job
- May 13, 2009
- Interim superintendent Ron Wimmer hit the ground running Monday.
- Attendance at Riverview returns to normal levels after flu scares
- 12:30 p.m., May 13, 2009 Updated 02:00 p.m.
- The absence rate at Riverview Elementary school has declined two percent since Wednesday. On Thursday the De Soto School District announced a seven percent absentee rate due to illness. Nine percent of students were absent on Wednesday, the highest rate since five cases of the H1N1 virus were confirmed.
- Police calls, May 13, 2009
- May 13, 2009
- Police reports filed in Shawnee from May 6 to 12, 2009.
- Fake anthrax threat to IRS originated in Shawnee
- May 13, 2009
- John Philip Barker, 47, Overland Park, pleaded guilty to sending a white powder from the Shawnee post office through the U.S. mail that he claimed was anthrax, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said Wedneday.
- Commuter forecast, May 13, 2009
- May 13, 2009
- You’ll have to share the road on Highway 24 this morning because eastbound lane will be closed for construction. Some afternoon thunderstorms could impact your afternoon commute.
- Vertical Challenge: Shawnee pole vaulters push each other to new heights
- May 13, 2009
- Lawn chairs were lined up next to the bleachers, and all of the seats were full. It was standing-room-only around the pole vault pit on Friday at the Shawnee Mission North Relays, and with good reason.
- Meeting to address park deer concerns tonight
- May 13, 2009
- Johnson County citizens will have a chance to share what they think of Shawnee Mission Park’s deer overpopulation in a public meeting tonight in Shawnee.
- Five questions: In the interim
- May 13, 2009
- New USD 232 interim superintendent Ron Wimmer discusses his position.
- Shawnee Neighbors: Paul Chaffee
- May 13, 2009
- Paul Chaffee shares a little about himself in this week’s Neighbors column.
- School deals with five swine flu confirmed cases
- May 13, 2009
- The H1N1 flu virus has found its way to Riverview Elementary School.
- Mize students pick up the tab
- May 13, 2009
- Students at Mize collected pop tabs this year for the Ronald McDonald House in honor of Joshua ‘Hawk’ Andrewson.
- Shrine rodeo coming to town
- May 13, 2009
- The month of May in Tonganoxie means the end of the school year, the beginning of the pool season and more recently it has also meant it is time for the rodeo.
- ‘Learn from us’: Murder victim’s family speaks out
- May 13, 2009
- The core of Christina Osburn’s character can be summed up in one phrase: “Never look down on someone unless you’re helping them up.”
- Firefighter jumps out window to escape fire
- May 13, 2009
- A Shawnee man escaped through a second-story window Monday morning after discovering his home was on fire.
- Police cite stores selling alcohol to minors
- May 13, 2009
- Shawnee police cited clerks at two local businesses May 6 for furnishing alcohol to minors.
- Information meeting to focus on new school
- May 13, 2009
- De Soto USD 232 will have a public information meeting about the district’s seventh elementary school from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. May 14 at Mize Elementary School, 7301 Mize Road.
- Developers to see fees rise
- May 13, 2009
- The city of Shawnee is moving forward with increasing fees for some developers to closer match those charged by other Johnson County cities.
- State should step in
- May 13, 2009
- Sixty-nine restaurants and bars including a retirement center and hardware store have purchased smoking licenses in Kansas City, Kan., that allow businesses to expose their employees and patrons to the dangers of secondhand smoke.
- Visiting toddler disrupts routine life
- May 13, 2009
- Thinking back, I’m not sure how or when it happened.
- Brull sets two records at swim meet
- May 13, 2009
- A first in a first. And a couple of records to boot.
- Police to step up ‘Click It or Ticket’ enforcement
- May 13, 2009
- The Shawnee Police Department is joining state and local law enforcement agencies to support an aggressive “Click It or Ticket” seat belt enforcement campaign May 18-31.
- North softball tops West, falls to ONW
- May 13, 2009
- The Shawnee Mission North softball team ended on both sides of the coin Monday afternoon during a pair of make-up games at the Shawnee Mission School District Softball Complex.
- Simons, Hendee dazzle at North Relays
- May 13, 2009
- The break between events was barely 25 minutes, but that was all the time Shawnee Mission North senior Storm Simons needed to break a school record, recover and then break another school record on Friday at the North Relays.
- Drive seeks marrow donors
- May 13, 2009
- Aileen Banks has seen what bone marrow donation can do.
- Eagles surging toward postseason
- May 13, 2009
- Behind dual threat Scott O’Leary, the Maranatha Academy baseball team fought its way to four wins in five attempts over the past week to improve the Eagles’ overall record to 8-9, helping the combined Kansas City Christian/Maranatha squad edge closer to a middle seed for next week’s Class 4A sub-state playoffs.
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