The prospect of even more storefronts being vacated in downtown Tonganoxie is disturbing news, but the joint effort under way to reverse the exodus is welcomed.Next week, members of the City Council, Planning Commission, Chamber of Commerce and other parties interested in the future of downtown ...
Todd Cossman identified the two main areas he wanted the McLouth High girls basketball team to improve this season: Increasing its field goal percentage and committing fewer turnovers."We have to take smarter and better shots and that will correlate to a higher field goal percentage," Cossman ...
McLouth boys basketball coach Jason Schroeder noticed that whenever Ryan Smith went into the paint last season, he usually came out of the pack with the ball.Schroeder also noticed that Smith primarily liked to hang out along the perimeter and shoot three-pointers.This season, expect those ...
Randy Kraft doesn't have to make a speech to the Tonganoxie High girls basketball team regarding expectations for the 2007-08 season.Chances are everybody associated with the program knows the expectation level of this year's Chieftains and their five seniors."They're always high, of course," ...
Tonganoxie High boys basketball players spent the last three weeks of practice accumulating floor burns all over their bodies.THS coach David Walker brought back a new drill to practice this year, where he starts two players at half court. He rolls the ball down the floor and both players dive ...
The Tonganoxie High wrestling team had three members compete in the Class 4A state meet last season. They went a combined 1-6.All of them -- seniors Cameron Adcox and Wyatt Coffin, and junior Matt Brock -- will return this season.Coach Jeremy Goebel elevated the bar that measures THS wrestling ...
Leavenworth County Attorney Frank Kohl said he believed Tonganoxie School Board members discussed a new organizational chart for the district in a series of executive sessions back in August.But Kohl, the county's top law enforcement official, says board members did not violate the Kansas Open ...
Come Thursday, it will begin to look a lot like Christmas in Tonganoxie.The city's downtown holiday celebration will begin with a Tonganoxie Chamber of Commerce Open House from 4:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. at Bichelmeyer's Steakhouse.Chamber of Commerce executive director Cheryl Hanback said the open ...
The gazebo that has provided shade for more than 20 years at the Tonganoxie swimming pool was built with the help of local volunteers and money raised by the community.But now the gazebo might be coming down as construction of the new swimming pool continues.During the Nov. 13 City Council ...
Any chance for the people deciding whether Tonganoxie will have Sunday liquor sales will have to wait.The measure won't be on the Jan. 15 ballot that will decide the quorum size for the City Council.City Attorney Mike Kelly informed the council Monday night that adding a question about selling ...