Environmental costs of oil use aren't limited to air pollution and oil spills such as the recent ones in the Black Sea and San Francisco Bay.Oil is used to make the plastic for artificial Christmas trees, which eventually end up in landfills. That's one of the advantages of real trees, say Ed ...

Pianist Carolyn Day will be without a job Friday and Saturday at the sixth annual Madrigal Feaste, a production of the Tonganoxie High School vocal department.After all, "madrigal" means "without accompaniment" in Old English."So I really don't have a job that night," Day said with a laugh.In ...

Residents wanting to mail holiday items to U.S. troops overseas should do so because of early U.S. Postal Service deadlines.Here are recommended mailing dates for delivery by Christmas to U.S. military overseas APO/FPO addresses:Using regular first class and priority mail, holiday mail sent to ...

A new interceptor sewer that will service future development in the Eagle Valley 4 subdivision and replace the Raintree lift station is one meeting closer to completion.On Nov. 28, four city representatives -- Mike Yanez, city administrator; Kathy Bard, assistant city administrator; Butch ...

With the flip of a candy cane switch, Mayor Mike Vestal's anxieties were eased.Nervous that something was going to go terribly wrong, Vestal was excited when the switch was flipped Thursday night and downtown and the new Mayor's Christmas Tree were lit up with holiday lights."This was the first ...

Your article in the Nov. 20 issue of The Mirror regarding the "empty feeling" downtown is very misleading. It is a rather half-full, half-empty point of view.As owners of Bichelmeyer's Steakhouse restaurant and the Royale flea market, we beg to differ.When you take a photo "just after ...

Students in Beth Fritz's fourth-grade class at Tonganoxie Elementary School are this week's poets. The students have been learning about and trying out their hands writing their own haikus.In my backyarda deer family is walkingin the middle of the day.-- Dalton AndersenIn a gardena little ...

Glenna Lynn MillsJustin and Brooke Mills of Princeton announce the birth of a daughter, Glenna Lynn.Glenna was born Nov. 8, 2007, at Olathe Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 19 inches long.Grandparents are George and Cindi Mills of Tonganoxie and Fred and Rhoda Martin of ...

Tonganoxie Police DepartmentAround 3:10 a.m. Dec. 1, a 37-year-old Tonganoxie man was arrested for driving under the influence in the 200 block of Willow Bend Drive. Officers stopped the man after he failed to stop at a stop sign. After performing a field sobriety test and being tested at the ...

There are citizens of the U.S. who do not have a driver's license and who have been convicted of failure to yield at a stop sign and speeding. Some of those drivers were at fault for causing a traffic accident where they walked away, and the innocent party died. The death of Amanda Bixby was ...