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Tonganoxie takes 2nd at state in 2-speaker debate at home

Tonganoxie High School has more hardware for its expansive debate trophy collection. THS debate team members Ella Pruitt and Cayden Hunter placed second in the Class 4A two-speaker debate championship Saturday night at THS. The THS team finished second to the Chanute team of Andrew Woods ...

Tonganoxie hosting state debate Friday and Saturday

There’s going to be a whole lot to debate Friday and Saturday in Tonganoxie. Tonganoxie High School will be host to the Class 4A and Class 3-1A 4-speaker and 2-speaker debates starting at 1 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday. Overall, 41 teams will be competing. Two of those teams will be THS ...

Tonganoxie Elementary School announces 2nd quarter honor rolls

Tonganoxie Elementary School has released its honor roll lists for the second quarter of the 2023-24 school year. TES students in fourth and fifth grades on the principal’s honor roll achieved all A’s, while TES students on the honor roll achieved A’s and B’s. Here’s the full lists ...

Local schools on winter break

Winter break has started for many schools in the area. Tonganoxie public schools, Genesis Schools and McLouth schools all have started winter break. Those schools finished up the 2023 portion of the academic schedule Friday. Basehor-Linwood schools will begin break on Thursday. Students ...

Tonganoxie middle and high school musicians named to honor bands

Tonganoxie High School and Tonganoxie Middle School band members recently were selected to the Northeast District Honor Bands. Honor band students rehearsed and performed in the District Honor Band Concerts on Dec. 2 at Seaman High School in Topeka. Aiden Van Middlesworth, a three-year ...

McLouth Elementary students named to honor choir

McLouth will have three elementary school students performing in the All-State Elementary Honor Choir. This marks the first time ever that MES is sending three students to the honor choir. Caitlyn Pound, Cameron Medina and Zeddie Walker are the three students selected to perform in the choir ...

Student earns degree from University of Nebraska

Alyssa Marie Richardson, Basehor, was among 1,159 graduates who received degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during commencement exercises Friday and Saturday at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln. Richardson earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration with high ...

Tonganoxie student listed on McPherson honor roll

A Tonganoxie High School alum has been named honorable mention to the fall 2023 honor roll at McPherson College. Dustin Rhoads has been named to the list at McPherson, a four-year private college in central Kansas. Students must be enrolled full-time and earn a grade-point average of 3.55 ...

Local judge (and Tonganoxie alum) speaks to THS, TMS classes

A Tonganoxie High School alum spoke to American Government classes at Tonganoxie middle and high schools. Douglas County Judge Carl Folsom III spoke to TMS teacher Debbie Holloway’s class and THS teacher Mike McClellan’s class. Folsom gave a presentation to and answered questions from ...