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 ...

25 years ago: Dec. 31, 1997 Tonganoxie High School’s temperamental water main ruptured again last week. The district has hired TMS Incorporated, an industrial plumber of Kansas City, Kan., to replace a section of the broken piping and install several valves so that the water supply can be ...

25 years ago: Dec. 24, 1997 Tonganoxie Elementary School students enjoyed the Christmas All-School Sing-Along last Friday, Dec. 19. Over 800 children participated, filling the floor and the balcony bleachers. The Good Shepherd Thrift Shop was featured on the front page. Dorothy Korb and ...

25 years ago: Dec. 17, 1997 Tonganoxie High School computer science teacher Bob Hensley has been putting in a lot of hours lately to wire the high school for computers. With 17 new computers at the school, there has been plenty to do. Dogsled racer Duane Halverson and his dog, Lumpy, visited ...

Tonganoxie Community Historical Society members recently presented a session on “History Camp for Fun” at the Kansas Museum Association conference. Four volunteers from TCHS discussed the history camp the Tonganoxie group offers for youths entering grades, 4, 5 and 6. They discussed how ...