Caroline Boyer City Reporter
Caroline is a Lenexa native and a 1999 graduate of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. She then attended the University of Kansas, where she worked for the University Daily Kansan and interned with the Lawrence Journal-World. She graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism in May 2003 and joined the Shawnee Dispatch in September 2003. Caroline briefly worked for the Bonner Springs Chieftain, from January through August of 2004, before returning to the Dispatch as the city reporter. She now lives in Shawnee. Send e-mail to Caroline at cboyer@shawneedispatch.com.
Recent stories
- Budget picture remains gloomy
- City manager warns no more 1-time fixes
- July 1, 2009
- Tough decisions face the Shawnee City Council this month as it considers the city’s 2010 budget.
- Shawnee veteran recounts brushes with history
- July 1, 2009
- Cyrus Shockey isn’t one to talk up his military service.
- Relay draws teams fighting for cancer cure
- July 1, 2009
- With their pink boxing gloves, members of the Friends for a Cure team at the Shawnee/Lenexa Relay for Life were out to fight a foe much worse than Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago and Tommy Gunn.
- Terminally ill hairdresser donates locks
- July 1, 2009
- As a hairdresser for 30 years, Donna Gray of Shawnee is no stranger to haircuts.
- Firefighters battle two-alarm fire at Shawnee apartment complex
- June 26, 2009
- A two-alarm fire damaged a 12-unit building and displaced 19 residents in a Shawnee apartment complex Friday afternoon.
- Olympian in sync with Shawnee swimmers
- June 24, 2009
- Olympic bronze medal winner Becky Tomsic and her husband moved to Shawnee last year when he was transferred here for his job with Bayer Animal Healthcare.
- Patriotic display unfurls Sunday in Shawnee
- June 24, 2009
- Beginning this weekend, the red, white and blue will again be on full display in downtown Shawnee.
- Cancer patient finds connection at Relay for Life
- June 24, 2009
- At 29, Lisa Fiatte Hinkle didn’t expect to be told she had breast cancer.
- Proposal to use sharpshooters to cull park deer herd endorsed
- June 24, 2009
- Sharpshooters will be used this fall to cull the deer herd in Shawnee Mission Park.
- Park board approves sharpshooter plan to cull SM Park deer herd
- June 17, 2009
- Sharpshooters will be used this fall to cull the deer herd in Shawnee Mission Park.
Recent photos
Event committee co-chairs Lori Vielhauer (right) and Candace Walkup address the crowd during the opening ceremony.
Relay participants browse the silent auction, one of many ways participants raised funds during the event. The relay raised more that $90,000 for the American Cancer Society.
Jake Rohrer (left) and Oliver Parsons donned some feminine wear and wigs in the “Miss Relay” competition. Seven men dressed up in women’s clothes to gather donations from people at the relay.
Evelyn VanKemseke addresses the crowd June 24 at Town Hall after receiving Commerce Bank’s William T. Kemper Foundation Community Service Award. The award included a $10,000 for the organization VanKemseke founded, Shawnee Community Services.
Laura Tidwell, Julie Allen, Kim Dunn and Kelly Creason (from left) of the Friends for a Cure team walk around the “track” laid out on Swarner Park’s soccer fields as the evening progresses. The relay requires at least one member of each team to be on the track from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day.
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Point of View
With the Shawnee/ Lenexa Fireworks display canceled, what are your 4th of July plans this year?
“Family time, especially with my granddaughter who will likely teach me something new, are my plans.”
