Also from April 19
Events
- 2007 U.S. Army Soldier Show
- C.W. Parker Birthday Party
- Lansing DAZE
- Leavenworth County Historical Society Herb Market
- Salvation Army Commodity Distribution
- SpireFest 2007
- What a Difference a Friend Makes!” Walk
- Wings to Fly Charity Fashion Show to benefit the Burnett Burn Center at The University of Kansas Ho
Polls
What do you think about Lansing DAZE being moved up a month?
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| I like it, but I wished there were more advance notice. | 41% | |
| Not so much. There’s already a lot going on in May. | 34% | |
| It’s great. Temperatures won’t be as hot. | 24% | |
| Total | 41 | |
All stories
- Andrews to leave LHS, coach baseball at Oak Park
- April 19, 2007
- A lot has changed during Troy Andrews’ brief tenure as Lansing High baseball coach.
- Lansing DAZE to move
- City announces earlier dates, new venue for 2007 festival
- April 19, 2007
- The parade is gone but the fireworks will stick around, even as the annual Lansing DAZE event moves from the second weekend in June to the first weekend in May.
- Main St. crews hoping weather will hold
- April 19, 2007
- Wet, cold weather this spring has set back progress on the Main Street project, but an official with the project’s lead contractor says his workers are ready to make up for lost time if temperatures stay warm and skies remain sunny.
- Federal officials visit to evaluate proposed lab site
- April 19, 2007
- As federal officials Wednesday arrived in Kansas to inspect potential sites for a $450 million bio-defense laboratory, state officials amped up their sales pitch.
- A family affair
- Families put fitness first at community race
- April 19, 2007
- Most of the runners at the second annual Lansing Fun Run had to rise extra early Sunday morning.
- Med student learning practical lessons at Lansing practice
- April 19, 2007
- Medical student Joshua Max is spending time this spring in the office of Lansing physician Jeffrey Lawhead, where he’s receiving lessons that transcend the science of medicine.
- Lang K’s 18 in 8-inning thriller
- April 19, 2007
- Thanks to three consecutive rainouts, the Lansing High softball team was forced to wait nearly three weeks to play its second doubleheader of the season.
- Lions clock fast times at Basehor
- April 19, 2007
- It has been a few years since Lansing High track coach Errol Logue has had the opportunity to carry home a trophy after a meet.
- Cordes’ goal gives LHS 1-0 win at KC Christian
- April 19, 2007
- The Lansing High girls soccer team collected its fifth consecutive victory and fifth consecutive shutout Monday when it held off Kansas City Christian, 1-0.
- Youths use day to serve
- April 19, 2007
- Despite the cold weather and the threat of up to three inches of snow, members of the Leavenworth County 4-H Club gathered Saturday morning in Tonganoxie for the seventh annual Youth Service Day.
- Tonganoxie woman wins $20K
- Streak of lottery luck continues in Leavenworth County
- April 19, 2007
- Lottery luck has struck again in Leavenworth County - this time in Tonganoxie.
- Deadly intersection on 24-40 to be upgraded
- April 19, 2007
- Leavenworth County commissioners have approved a request by the city of Basehor to grind rumble strips and install two streetlights at the scene of an accident that killed a Tonganoxie teenager earlier this year.
- Lansing Auto Repair’s closing brings end to an era
- April 19, 2007
- Time changes everything. We have seen many businesses come and go over the years, but right now I am thinking of one in particular that means a lot to me and our family. The Lansing Auto Repair is gone, much to our dismay about who is going to keep us in “wheels.”
- Upgrade necessary at 158th and 24-40
- April 19, 2007
- Tuesday was a bittersweet day for Dennis and Denise Bixby. It was their daughter’s 20th birthday, but Amanda Bixby wasn’t with them to celebrate.
- Educating the pride
- Foundation breakfast honors Lansing students, educators
- April 19, 2007
- Lansing Educational Foundation Fund honored more than 50 students for their excellence at the fund’s third-annual breakfast on Friday. Twenty-one district educators - all recipients of foundation grants the past year - also were recognized.
- LMS announces honor roll
- April 19, 2007
- Lansing Middle School has announced its honor roll for the third quarter.
- Neighborhood pharmacist
- April 19, 2007
- For the past 10 years, Erika Arwine has made a living dealing drugs of the legal variety.
- Reading specialist to retire
- April 19, 2007
- At 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Debbie Coleman, Lansing Elementary School’s reading specialist, sat in a two-foot high chair with first-grader Alysa Wals to read “New Glasses for Max.”
- Contest takes aim at peer pressure
- April 19, 2007
- The Kansas Department of Transportation is sponsoring a competition to find a new song that encourages Kansas youths to resist peer pressure by abstaining from drinking alcohol until reaching the legal age limit of 21.
- Service Notes
- April 19, 2007
- Service notes for the week leading up to April 19, 2007.
- 4-H notes
- April 19, 2007
- The regular monthly meeting of the Leavenworth County 4-H Club was called to order by Nicole Allen on April 5.
- Lansing named a Tree City USA
- April 19, 2007
- Lansing has been named a Tree City USA community by The National Arbor Day Foundation to honor its commitment to community forestry. It is the seventh year Lansing has received this national recognition.
- Salvation Army sets commodity distribution times
- April 19, 2007
- The Salvation Army will be distributing commodities next week throughout Leavenworth County.
- Condemnation step, refund await action by council members
- April 19, 2007
- Lansing City Council is in line to receive and, perhaps, begin to take at this week’s meeting.
- Merchants discuss Main St.’s effects on business
- April 19, 2007
- The past few months, orange cones have dotted Main Street and entrances to businesses.
- Fort homes tour slated for Saturday
- April 19, 2007
- Fort Leavenworth will have its 30th Annual Historic Homes Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 21.
- Don’t discount politics in biolab decision, lawmaker says
- April 19, 2007
- After the glossy reports, high-powered presentations and site visits, the decision on where to build a much-sought-after $450 million national security laboratory may come down to old-fashioned politics.
- Carousel museum to have party
- April 19, 2007
- The C.W. Parker Carousel Museum in Leavenworth is having a birthday party later this month.
- Lansing salvages split with Santa Fe Trail
- April 19, 2007
- Despite a slow start to the season, the youth-laden Lansing High baseball team has shown numerous signs of being a team that could make another run at the state tournament.
- LHS tennis competes in Topeka
- April 19, 2007
- The Lansing High tennis team traveled to Topeka on Monday afternoon for the Washburn Quadrangular at Kossover Tennis Center.
- Governor orders flags to be flown at half staff
- April 19, 2007
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday ordered flags to be flown at half-staff because of the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech.
- Sebelius vetoes gun bill; backers vow challenge
- April 19, 2007
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed a bill aimed at preventing cities and counties from restricting where legal gun holders could carry their concealed weapons.
- Walk to raise funds to fight autism
- April 19, 2007
- Allies for Autism Spectrum Disorders of Leavenworth County is marking National Autism Awareness Month with its first Autism Awareness Fun Walk on Saturday, April 21, at Abeles Field in Leavenworth.
- On the record
- April 19, 2007
- Lansing Fire calls for the week leading up to April 19, 2007.
- JV golfers third at De Soto
- April 19, 2007
- The Lansing High junior varsity golf team placed third at the De Soto Invitational on Thursday, April 12.
- Scoreboard
- April 19, 2007
- Lansing sports scores and results for the week leading up to April 19, 2007.
- Immunizations offered to youths
- April 19, 2007
- The Leavenworth County Health Department will be offering free immunizations for youths ages 18 and younger.
