25 years ago: March 11, 1998 St. Patrick’s Day Parade starts at 10 a.m. Kids: Don’t forget the St. Patty’s Kiddie Parade! Judging will be done about 9 a.m. just south of the pool at Main Street and Third Street. Tonganoxie along with most of northeast Kansas dug its way out of a ...

25 years ago: March 4, 1998 Liz Cronemeyer, fifth grade instructor at Tonganoxie Elementary School has been selected as one of seven teachers in the state of Kansas this year to receive the Master Teacher of the year Award. First State Bank and Trust held the ground-breaking ceremony for ...

25 years ago: Feb. 25, 1998 The eleventh annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is less than a month away. The parade will start promptly at 19:00. At 9:30, there will be a children’s parade. Kids are encouraged to decorate their bikes, wagons, wheelbarrows, etc. to help celebrate this holiday ...

25 years ago: Feb. 18, 1998 Tonganoxie has a future, and the future looks bright. This was the sentiment expressed at the 16th Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast. Gary Carlson from Leavenworth Area Development gave the address. The Friendship Valley Get-Together Club met on January 29th at ...

25 years ago: Feb. 11, 1998 Tonganoxie High School instructor Steve Hughes’ fifth- and sixth-hour classes are in the process of building a real three-bedroom, two-bathroom home. Roughly 30 students from the 11th and 12th grades have undertaken the task of building a home from the ground up. ...

25 years ago: Feb. 4, 1998 Three students at Tonganoxie Elementary School won trophies for their extraordinary spelling abilities. They will also compete in the county spelling bee on February 12, to be held in Leavenworth. Wildhorse Orchard’s apple cider was judged to be the grand champion ...

25 years ago: Jan. 28, 1998 Damon New, Leavenworth County Key Banker of the Kansas Bankers Association and representative of the First Satte Bank and Trust of Tonganoxie and Basehor, today announced the winners of the Leavenworth Soil Conservation and Windbreak award for 1997. Soil ...

The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society will host Judith Yunghans Manthe for a program on Lyda Burton Conley and the Strength of the Wyandot Women. The event will be 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Reno Methodist Church on the Tonganoxie Community Historic Site campus, 201 W. Washington ...

25 years ago: Jan. 21, 1998 Matt Bichelmeyer was chosen citizen of the year by the Chamber of Commerce. Matt was chosen because of his willingness to help out wherever and whenever he could. Roger Shilling, of Shilling Electric, has been retrofitting the Sunflower Ammunition Water Treatment ...

25 years ago: Jan. 14, 1998 Over a hundred people, from children to grandparents, crowded into a banquet room at Bitler’s BBQ Restaurant on Thursday to meet Bob Dole. Among other topics discussed, Dole said he used to like to come to the fair in Tonganoxie. He also predicted that “there ...