Elvyn Jones Editor/Reporter
Elvyn Jones is a reporter for The Mirror.
Recent stories
- Instate NCAA games were special
- March 15, 2012
- Kansas teams matched up in tournament three times
- Work completed on Leavenworth County State Lake
- January 13, 2012
- Water level lowered to repair small slide on dam’s east side.
- First plans of Tonganoxie’s Chieftain Trail extension revealed
- January 13, 2012
- A $1.08 million extension of Chieftain Trail to north of U.S. Highway 24-40 could be completed early this fall, according to a schedule the city’s contract engineer presented Monday to the Tonganoxie City Council.
- Counselor’s golden retrievers help keep things calm at TES
- January 10, 2012
- Joseph Wenger remembers his biggest surprise his first day as a transfer kindergarten student to Tonganoxie Elementary School.
- Tonganoxie City Council split on how to move forward on new police headquarters
- January 10, 2012
- After a long debate, the Tonganoxie City Council agreed Monday to request city financial adviser Tom Kaleko attend its Jan. 23 meeting to explain the consequences of added debt for a new police station and financing options for the facility.
- Jalapenos to open next week
- January 10, 2012
- Tonganoxie Mexican food lovers will have to wait a bit longer before sampling the offerings at a new city restaurant.
- Ordinance disposals at fort heard in Tonganoxie
- January 10, 2012
- The disposal of obsolete ordnance from Fort Leavenworth was the source of explosions heard at about 5 p.m. Thursday in the Tonganoxie area.
- Tonganoxie City Council fills void in City Hall
- January 10, 2012
- Mike Yanez, city council agreed to month-by-month contractual agreement for interim city administrator services
- Source of Thursday’s explosions heard in Tonganoxie explained
- January 6, 2012
- Obsolete ordnance from Fort Leavenworth exploded at local quarry.
- Yanez remains at City Hall with Bard’s medical leave
- January 3, 2012
- Although his contract expired Dec. 31, Mike Yanez was on the job Tuesday at Tonganoxie City Hall as city administrator.
Recent photos
The Leavenworth County State Lake west of Tonganoxie is about 8 foot below normal water level after repairs were completed on the dam. The lake is expected to be back to normal levels this spring.
Tonganoxie Elementary School counselor Connie Weltha and her golden retrievers Bo (left) and Chip have teamed up to make the school a more friendly place for four years. Among other things, the dogs, registered as therapy dogs with the American Kennel Club, provide positive rewards for students and classrooms and help calm children with emotional problems.
A feasibility study on three proposed sites for a new Tonganoxie Police Station also found the current downtown station to be 4,200 square feet short of what the city’s police department needs.
Desiree Leeper makes a point about using coupons to those attending her December class on couponing at the Tonganoxie Public Library. Leeper will next offer the class Jan. 9 at the library.
Seventh-grader Gabi Westrich applies a sticker Friday to a cartoon of beer at JR’s Liquor Store, warning adults not to provide alcoholic beverages to minors. It was part of a joint Tonganoxie High School Students Against Drunk Driving and Transforming Tonganoxie Together’s Sticker Shock campaign, which also placed stickers at Mary’s Liquor Store.
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Point of View
Do you have any big summer trips planned, or will you take the staycation route?
We have family who live in Wisconsin, so we will go up to see them. We will do lots of fishing or sleeping in the boat, depending on what’s biting. We will be around Tongie most of the summer to help prepare our kids for their fall seasons, too.”
