Saturday's installment of the Kansas-Missouri Border War will mark the most momentous sporting event in the Kansas City area since the Jayhawks and Oklahoma Sooners played for the NCAA basketball championship 19 years ago at Kemper Arena.Those who don't hold a ticket to the game, which kicks ...
Graveside services for Ruby Holladay, 99, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, at Hardy Oak Rural Cemetery, McLouth.Mrs. Holladay died Oct. 19, 2007, in Santa Rosa, Calif. She was born Sept. 30, 1908, to Clyde and India Swain on a farm near McLouth.Survivors include a daughter, Verna M. ...
Services for Orleen Rollins, 91, McLouth, were Monday, Nov. 19, at Barnett-Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Oskaloosa.Mrs. Rollins died Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, in Meriden.She was born May 10, 1916, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Gus and Orrill Lena Postlewaite Wallace.She graduated from ...
Kelly Frantz said she couldn't recall when exactly the idea came to mind for a memorial for her late husband, Army Pfc. Lucas Frantz, who was killed on his 22nd birthday while serving in Iraq.It started with the idea of a tree.That idea continues to grow.Kelly Frantz, her mother, Pam Jeannin, ...
Leavenworth County Commissioners on Thursday extended a moratorium for an additional 12 months that prevents development along County Road 1 leading to a proposed interchange with Interstate 70.The moratorium, or what County Planning and Zoning Director Chris Dunn referred to as a "planning ...
When Gus Dent was told he could get extra credit in his English class for entering a photography contest, he jumped at the opportunity.The seventh-grader didn't know his photo would later be classified as the PTA Reflections Program's best photo in Kansas.His photo is a snapshot of a garden ...
Entering the Leavenworth County Fall Photo Contest seemed like a natural for Trish Wills of Tonganoxie."I love Leavenworth County in the fall, and so does my son," Wills said when she submitted her entry of her son, 2-year-old Cooper, smiling in some fallen leaves in Chieftain Park in ...
The Tonganoxie High volleyball team led the Chieftains fall sports in postseason honors after finishing the season 32-13 and registering a third-place finish in the Class 4A state tournament.Seniors Sami Franiuk, Tracie Hileman and Hannah Herrstrom made the Kaw Valley All-League team. Senior ...
Tonganoxie school administrators and community members gathered near Beatty Field on Friday to break ground on a new gateway that will lead to the football stadium.The Point of Pride project, funded solely by the Tonganoxie High School booster club, will feature a new building that will serve ...
The Tonganoxie Warriors seventh-grade girls basketball team made a defensive statement against Piper on Thursday: To win, the Pirates would have to break the full-court press.Piper couldn't overcome the defensive challenge.Tonganoxie pressed Piper and created several turnovers -- Jennifer ...