Monday’s open house celebration for the new athletics wing at Tonganoxie High School will also be a chance to celebrate the new choir room at THS. The final phase of campus renovations will be on display with the opening night of the Tonganoxie Invitational Basketball Tournaments. Included ...
25 years ago: Dec. 10, 1997 The Mayor’s Christmas Tree Lighting was held at the VFW Park on Sunday, December 7, just before the snowstorm that dropped 3-4 inches on the town. “The Shoemaker and the Elves,” a Christmas play was performed, directed by Peachez Joles and Jeffrey Gibbens. ...
The shelves at Dollar General on Northstar Court in Tonganoxie continue to become more and more empty as the week progresses. The store is expected to close Friday as employees prepare the new Dollar General Market down the road to the west near U.S. Highway 24-40 and Smiley Road to open its ...
The general election is roughly a month away, but one race that was thought to be uncontested now has a challenger. Anyone driving through Tonganoxie and the surrounding area will notice political signs for a write-in campaign. Todd Lux, a longtime Tonganoxie business owner, started a ...
It was a triangular sweep for Tonganoxie High volleyball on Monday. Tonganoxie picked up road victories against Jeff West (25-23, 25-17) and Basehor-Linwood (25-21, 25-17). Jeff West is now 5-18 on the season, while BLHS is 12-22. Those games came after last week’s loss to Ottawa in a ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday that Lawrence, Eudora and Baldwin City were among 30 communities selected to receive $28.5 million in competitive grants for pedestrian and bike transportation projects. The three communities combined will receive more than $2.5 million in grants ...
Tonganoxie Post 41 and local Boy Scouts members will conduct an American flag retirement ceremony next week. The event will start at 6:30 p.m. Monday at VFW Park. The community is invited to the ceremony.
The Second Harvest Mobile Food Truck will be coming to Tonganoxie again this Thursday. Second Harvest delivers food for pickup the second Thursday of each month to the Cornerstone Family Worship parking lot, 205 E. U.S. Highway 24-40. All residents are eligible to pick up food. Second ...
25 years ago: Oct. 15, 1997 Russell Plashka, Agribusiness teacher at Tonganoxie High School, and his horticulture class worked Monday morning on refurbishing the school’s greenhouse. About 16 students are helping rebuild it. Back in 1994 when the state drained Leavenworth County Lake and ...
Tonganoxie Post 41 and local Boy Scouts members will conduct an American flag retirement ceremony next week. The event will start at 6:30 p.m. Monday at VFW Park. The community is invited to the ceremony.
