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By Shawn Linenberger
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December 12, 2018
- Longtime Madrigal Feaste organizer/volunteer Carolyn Day recalls the inaugural year for what has become a popular Tonganoxie tradition.
Some 65 people attended the first Madrigal Feaste in 2002 for dinner and entertainment provided by 15 Chieftain Singers and 25 concert choir members.
Roughly 120 Tonganoxie students performed and participated in this year’s Madrigal Feaste for some 400 guests total Friday and Saturday.
Day crunched the numbers over the weekend and found that 1,358 students have served right at 5,000 guests since the event’s inception.
The event “kind of gets in your blood,” as Day described it.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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December 12, 2018
- Youths will get a chance to have breakfast with Santa in December at Tonganoxie Middle School.
The event will be 8:30-11:30 a.m. Dec. 15 at the TMS commons area.
Cost is $5 per person for both adults and children. The fee covers a pancake and sausage breakfast, photo with Santa Claus, craft tables for the children and a silent auction. Tickets will be sold at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Tonganoxie High School After Prom.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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December 1, 2018
- The Tonganoxie USD 464 School Board approved personnel recommendations at its Nov. 13 meeting.
Work agreements were approved for Deboarh Vinzant, student nutrition employee at the Tonganoxie High School west campus; Deborah Schmalz, custodial employee at THS west campus; and Lesley Harden, custodial employee at Tonganoxie Middle School.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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December 1, 2018
- The return of merriment, wassail and the Boar’s Head is coming.
This year’s Madrigal Feaste will be 6:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 8 at the Tonganoxie Middle School Commons Area.
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November 21, 2018
- Youths will get a chance to have breakfast with Santa in December at Tonganoxie Middle School.
The event will be 8:30-11:30 a.m. Dec. 15 at the TMS commons area.
Cost is $5 per person for both adults and children. The fee covers a pancake and sausage breakfast, photo with Santa Claus, craft tables for the children and a silent auction. Tickets will be sold at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Tonganoxie High School After Prom.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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November 21, 2018
- A Tonganoxie High School student has been named a semifinalist for the 2019 class of the Coca-Cola Scholars Program.
Ahren Gann was one of 1,896 high school seniors selected as semifinalists from a pool of 95,715 applications nationwide. Semifinalists were selected based on academic excellence, leadership and service demonstrated in school and community activities.
The semifinalists are in the running for 150 college scholarships worth $20,000.
Gann also is one of 19 Kansas seniors in the mix. Also representing Leavenworth County is Leavenworth’s Austin Shoffner.
With the addition of the 2019 class, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation will have provided more than 6,150 Coke Scholars nationwide with over $69 million in scholarships during the course of 31 years.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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November 15, 2018
- Tonganoxie will continue to offer Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but they now will start at 6 p.m.
Meetings take place at First Congregational Church at Fourth and Shawnee streets in Tonganoxie.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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November 15, 2018
- Anyone wanting to get nostalgic about high school or college in the 1980s or early 1990s got their fill of rock songs — and even some love ballads — last week at the Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center on the Tonganoxie High School campus.
THS students performed Samuel French’s “Rock of Ages” (High School Edition) Thursday through Saturday at the Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center on the Tonganoxie High School east campus.
The musical is based on the Broadway version that also became a 2012 motion picture featuring an all-star cast of Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti and more. The show takes place on Southern California’s famed Sunset Strip during the Reagan Era, home to Dupree’s Bourbon Room and The Venus a Go-Go.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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November 8, 2018
- Anyone wanting to jam to some classic rock songs — and even a few love ballads — from the 1980s and early 1990s should head this week to the Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center on the Tonganoxie High School east campus.
THS students will be performing Samuel French’s “Rock of Ages (High School Edition) at 7:30 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday at TPAC.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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October 31, 2018
- Tonganoxie school district officials are continuing to look into the practicality of installing artificial turf at Beatty Field.
USD 464 board members met with Superintendent Loren Feldkamp and Assistant Superintendent Tonya Phillips and school administrators during a special meeting Monday in the Tonganoxie High School library.
After a lengthy discussion about the merits of turf and how it should be handled as a priority with improving district facilities, the board agreed to look at the possibility of fundraising and the forming of a committee.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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October 24, 2018
- Tonganoxie schools concluded the first quarter of the school year earlier this month.
The end of the first quarter was Oct. 12.
Parent-teacher conferences were Wednesday and Thursday, so students were off those days. There was no school on Friday also.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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October 24, 2018
- The school board unanimously approved a request for qualifications for architectural/engineering firms to develop the first phase of a long-range facility planning for the Tonganoxie High School campus to accommodate at least 650 students.
Proposals are due Nov. 5, with the board set to review the proposals Nov. 12. Projected firms would be notified Nov. 13 and then the interview process would take place in December, with a firm selected in January.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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October 24, 2018
- Tonganoxie’s official enrollment for 2018-19 actually is down from last year.
Assistant Superintendent Tonya Phillips told the school board in its regular meeting Oct. 9 that numbers actually were down by 31 students.
She did note that a large graduating class could have some impact on the reduction.
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By Shawn Linenberger
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October 10, 2018
- Administration confiscated a small knife Tuesday morning at Tonganoxie Elementary School.
According to a release from Tonganoxie USD 464, a student reported at 8 a.m. Tuesday that another student had brought a knife to TES.
