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Remember When: A Community Review for Tonganoxie for June 11, 2025

Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...

Remember When: A Community Review for May 21, 2025

Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...

Kansas Stories of Vietnam War: Tonganoxie Edition opens later this month

The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society will open a new exhibit on Memorial Day that localizes a Kansas focus on service in the Vietnam War. The exhibit is the culmination of a statewide project, Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War, which was sponsored by Humanities Kansas starting in early ...

Remember When: A Community Review for May 14, 2025

25 years ago: May 3, 2000 Next week, a cornerstone of the Tonganoxie businesses will be honored for a century of work. Calvin Quisenberry, owner of Quisenberry Funeral Home, will accept the award given by the Kansas Funeral Directors Association in Wichita. “A lot of the time, I spend as ...

Remember When: A Community Review of Tonganoxie for May 7, 2025

25 years ago: April 26, 2000 On May 4, The Mirror will celebrate its 118th birthday, and the newspaper’s staff would like our readers to join us for an afternoon open house. We’d like all of our readers to come over to our offices at 520 E. Fourth and have a piece of cake. Earth Day ...

Remember When: A Community Review for April 30, 2025

25 years ago: April 26, 2000 Clifford Tessendorf has figured out the ins and outs of moving houses. “We have a unified jacking system,” said the owner of Valley Moving, Wamego. “We set six jacks under a house, jack it up and bring it straight up.” This, he said, helps prevent the walls ...

Remember When: A Community Review for Tonganoxie April 23, 2025

25 years ago: April 19, 2000 Bernice Gergick and Donna Higbee volunteered last week to help students in Debbie Wedel’s kindergarten class at Tonganoxie Elementary School make sugar Easter ducks. Members of the Mirror staff were presented Saturday with nine first-place awards in the Kansas ...

Remember When: A Community Review of Tonganoxie for April 9, 2025

Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...

Remember When: A Community Review for March 26, 2025

Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...