Also from January 5
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Photo galleries
Polls
Do you make New Year's resolutions?
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No. What’s the sense? | 56% | |
| Yes. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have any to break. | 43% | |
| Total | 23 | |
All stories
- Former USM coach indicted
- January 5, 2006
- A federal indictment handed up Wednesday charges former USM football coach Scott Frear with three counts related to child pornography.
- Census details daytime exodus
- January 5, 2006
- John Orkwis doesn’t consider his daily drive into Leavenworth a commute.
- Retail-office complex slated for DeSoto Road
- Site now home to mobile home park
- January 5, 2006
- The southeast corner of DeSoto and Eisenhower roads would be home to a new retail-office complex, if the plans of a group of doctors come to fruition.
- East Hill Singers mark 10 years
- Lansing Correctional Facility inmates, both current and former, make up half of group
- January 5, 2006
- In a small chapel Tuesday night, about 20 men were seated and singing a song called “Thank You Very Much.”
- New book explores penitentiary
- January 5, 2006
- A Leavenworth writer has turned his interest in local history and the U.S. Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth into a new book.
- Lansing girls face first league setback
- Tonganoxie still team to beat in Kaw Valley League
- January 5, 2006
- The Lansing High girls basketball team knew it would have to beat Tonganoxie if it wanted to have a shot at winning the Kaw Valley League championship.
- at least 16 former LHS basketball players to return for ceremony
- January 5, 2006
- Loren Russell’s phone has been ringing off the hook for the past three weeks as he has been flooded with calls from former Lansing High School basketball players.
- Scoreboard
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing sports scores and results for the week leading up to Jan. 5, 2006.
- Model solar systems cover classroom
- January 5, 2006
- In Shelley Brammer’s third-grade classroom, every student can be in his or her own universe. That’s because a model solar system is hanging above each student’s desk.
- LHS counselors prepare workshops
- January 5, 2006
- Students may have been able to put off any thought of school during winter break, but now that they’re back, Lansing High School counselors are making sure seniors are preparing for the future.
- Speaker agrees on multiyear school funding
- January 5, 2006
- Usually opponents, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and House Speaker Doug Mays seem to be reading from the same page when it comes to one aspect of school finance as the 2006 legislative session approaches.
- Governor says she’ll seek multiyear school funding plan
- January 5, 2006
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has provided a glimpse of her educational funding plans for the 2006 legislative session.
- Mom stays busy with PTA
- January 5, 2006
- Each morning, Robin Goebel packs off three of her four young children to Lansing Elementary School. Soon afterward, she follows them to the school, where she spend hours each week as president of the Lansing Parent-Teacher Association.
- On the record
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing Police and Fire reports for the week leading up to Jan. 5, 2006.
- Council to hear more about smoking ban
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing City Council will learn more about a resident’s request for a ban on smoking in all public places in the city.
- KCKCC to conduct youth basketball clinic Jan. 14
- January 5, 2006
- Kansas City Kansas Community College will hold a basketball clinic for boys and girls in the third through eighth grades on Saturday, Jan. 14.
- Parks and Rec spring soccer sign-up begins Monday
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing Parks and Recreation will accept registrations for the spring season of youth soccer from Jan. 9 through Feb. 11.
- Middle School basketball tips off Tuesday
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing Middle School boys basketball begins play at 4 p.m. Tuesday when the seventh- and eighth-grade A teams plays host to Warren Middle School.
- Time to follow your dream
- January 5, 2006
- This is the time to make your New Year’s Resolutions.
- Johnsmeyer Gym worth celebrating
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing High School students, fans and alumni will pay a posthumous tribute this week to Earl Johnsmeyer, a longtime coach, teacher and counselor at the school.
- Smoking ordinance requires input
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing City Council members begin the new year faced with a weighty issue: whether to impose a ban on smoking in public places.
- Work to keep museum closed
- January 5, 2006
- The 1913 Parker Carousel will give its gears a rest for two months.
- Blood pressure checkups slated
- January 5, 2006
- If you felt your blood pressure rising during the recent holidays, you may be able to take advantage of a free blood pressure check at the Leavenworth County Council on Aging.
- Chamber meeting taking reservations
- January 5, 2006
- The Leavenworth-Lansing Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and banquet will be Jan. 18 at the Riverfront Community Center, 123 S. Esplanade St., Leavenworth.
- 4-H news
- January 5, 2006
- The bimonthly meeting of the Leavenworth County Events Council was Nov. 28 at the Lansing 4-H Building. President Natalie Hall called the meeting to order.
- Museum supervisor begins work
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing Historical Museum is experiencing changes in the New Year with the addition of a new supervisor and what will be greatly expanded hours.
- Police seek new patrol cars, equipment
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing Police Department would add five new vehicles and each of its patrol cars would get a new look under a proposal to be put before Lansing City Council.
- Wrestlers return to mat tonight
- January 5, 2006
- With two tournament titles under its belt in two tries, the Lansing High wrestling team entered winter break brimming with confidence.
- All-State honor caps record-setting career
- Welch is Lions’ career leader in digs, points, wins
- January 5, 2006
- A quick glance at the Lansing High volleyball record books reveals two things about Casey Welch: She played a lot of volleyball and was pretty darn good.
- Lions win ‘ugly’
- In classic Lansing-Tongie fashion, game is sloppy slugfest
- January 5, 2006
- The statistics weren’t pretty, the shots were ugly and the free throws were downright hideous, but the final score - Lansing 48, Tonganoxie 40 - was the only thing that really mattered.
- Fort schedules MLK activities
- January 5, 2006
- Fort Leavenworth’s commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, in the Frontier Conference Center.
- Basehor man killed while walking on county road
- January 5, 2006
- A 65-year-old Basehor man was killed Wednesday afternoon northwest of Basehor when a minivan drove left of center and hit him, Kansas Highway Patrol reports said.
- Basehor youth earns Eagle award
- January 5, 2006
- Kyle E. Robinson, 14, of Basehor, has earned the highest advancement award the Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts, the Eagle Scout Award.
- Comprehensive plan nearly ready for city’s review
- January 5, 2006
- Revisions to Basehor’s comprehensive planning guide will be ready for review soon.
- Lansing City Council to consider request for public-smoking ban
- January 5, 2006
- Lansing City Council will discuss on Thursday a resident’s proposal to snuff out smoking in all enclosed public places in the city.
- Commission selects County Road 1 route to turnpike
- County still sees funding as stumbling block; group to lobby Congressional delegation soon
- January 5, 2006
- The Leavenworth County Commission’s choice last week of County Road 1 as the access road to a planned turnpike interchange is “huge,” according to Tonganoxie Mayor Dave Taylor.
- Beard-growing contest to highlight Basehor fest
- January 5, 2006
- As the saying says, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- City, administrator finalist continue work on agreement
- January 5, 2006
- Last week, the Basehor City Council met with a finalist for the vacant city administrator position. Mayor Chris Garcia said the interview “went very well.”
- Education, gambling top issues
- January 5, 2006
- Education and gaming — those two old thorns in the side of Kansas politics — once again are expected to take center stage during the 2006 legislative session.
- Mayors look forward to new year
- Basehor, Linwood officials outline work
- January 5, 2006
- In Basehor municipal government, priorities include hiring new employees for key positions and fine-tuning project plans. Its southern Leavenworth County neighbor, the city of Linwood, has its mind’s eye on completing construction of another lagoon cell, implementing a municipal court system and advertising itself as a player in the growth market.
- Library proposes $2.99 million bond issue
- Special election scheduled for Feb. 28 to decide on constructing new building on 158th Street
- January 5, 2006
- Next month, Basehor Community Library officials will ask patrons of its 50-square mile voting district to greenlight approval for something they deem long overdue — a new building.
- Twelve-point loss greets Bobcats after break
- January 5, 2006
- After a hard-fought 55-43 defeat at Pembroke Hill, Basehor-Linwood boys basketball coach Mike McBride said there was only one thing standing between his team and victory: belief.
- Obituary: JB (Butch) Stinnett Jr.
- January 5, 2006
- Agencies report strong charitable giving
- National, international disasters didn’t dampen donations to local groups
- January 5, 2006
- Hogwash.
- Communities mourn loss of youth activist
- J.B. Stinnett remembered as tireless volunteer on and off the basketball court
- January 5, 2006
- Often it seems those who live for more than themselves are taken too early. And only too late are they given the recognition they rightly deserve.
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