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- KVL Insider
- January 15, 2009
- The Kaw Valley League basketball race is beginning to develop some clarity. Chris Wristen and Benton Smith try to sort through it all.
- Commuter forecast, January 15, 2008
- January 15, 2009
- Temperatures are cold this morning, but there aren’t any issues traveling from Lawrence to Topeka or Kansas City. Currently, everything is on time at MCI in Kansas City.
- Holland takes committee posts
- January 15, 2009
- Newly elected 3rd District State Senator Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, has been named to four standing committees and two joint committees for the 2009 legislative session.
- Two of three open spots attract board hopefuls
- Two current members decide against re-election
- January 15, 2009
- Upcoming Basehor-Linwood School Board elections see two members choosing not to see re-election.
- BLHS boasts two champs
- January 15, 2009
- After a three-week winter break, the Basehor-Linwood High School wrestling team returned to the mat with emphasis on Saturday at the Dick Burns Mat Classic at the Bonner Springs YMCA.
- Basehor girls stay unbeaten
- January 15, 2009
- Basehor-Linwood won a free-throw shooting contest on Tuesday night against Bishop Ward.
- Library plans eagle celebration
- January 15, 2009
- Live eagle presentations to be part of Eagle Day celebration
- A child’s character follows into future
- January 15, 2009
- It is well over a decade ago that a middle school youngster sat in my office and talked haltingly about his cheating at school. He was there because he had had a bout of guilt that would not leave him; not until he had admitted what he had done.
- Protect our young drivers
- January 15, 2009
- The past three years several organizations interested in reducing crashes involving young drivers, including AAA, have advocated strengthening the Kansas graduated driver licensing (GDL) system before the Kansas Legislature.
- Marillac Center offers program
- January 15, 2009
- Richard Johnson, Ph.D., president of the Association of Lifelong Adult Ministry, will present “Discovering your spiritual strengths,” from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Marillac Center, 4200 S. Fourth St., Leavenworth.
- Smoking bans need state-wide standardization
- January 15, 2009
- The number of Kansas communities that have passed or are considering smoking bans fuels discussion of legislation that would impose such a ban statewide.
- Band announces annual jazz night
- January 15, 2009
- The Basehor-Linwood High School Jazz Band will have its annual Jazz Night at 7 p.m. Feb. 22, at the high school.
- Title defense at stake for BLHS at Bobcat Invitational tourney
- January 15, 2009
- In addition to the Kaw Valley League championships, the Basehor-Linwood boys and girls basketball teams swept some additional titles last year.
- Jenkins tapped for assignment
- January 15, 2009
- Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins was named to the House Committee on Financial Services, which oversees all aspects of the nation’s housing and financial services sectors.
- Library group gives outlet to Basehor writers
- January 15, 2009
- Saturday was a quiet morning at the Basehor Community Library. Only the soft murmur of voices and the sound of pencil on paper could be heard inside the doors.
- Library plays host to King presentation
- January 15, 2009
- The Basehor Community Library will play host to a program honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at the library.
- On the agenda
- January 15, 2009
- The Basehor City Council will have a regular meeting Thursday, Jan. 22.
- Bobcat powerlifters strongest at tourney
- January 15, 2009
- Basehor-Linwood’s gymnasium was transformed from a basketball court into a weight room on Saturday, with powerlifters from throughout northeast Kansas participating in the Bobcat Invitational competition.
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary Honor Roll
- January 15, 2009
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary announces its 2009 honor roll students.
- Basehor Elementary Honor Roll
- January 15, 2009
- Basehor Elementary announces its honor roll students for grades K-6.
- Bonner Springs swimmers look to get healthy, improve
- January 15, 2009
- This time of year you always hear the same thing about people being sick: “Oh, it’s really going around right now.”
- New Year’s resolutions put to psychology test
- January 15, 2009
- Another new year brings another list of resolutions for many people. Too often, those lists include habits for some sort of ‘change’ and are abandoned by the end of the next week. Too often, we try to make dramatic changes without making the most important change first…changing our minds.
- Pine disease prevents species from thriving in Kansas
- January 15, 2009
- Today we start a two-part series about one of the most popular trees in Kansas, the pine tree, and some of the disease problems pines face.
- Rewiring likely to bring about unforeseen consequences
- January 15, 2009
- In much the same way that the erection of a national electrical grid a century ago wrought wholesale changes in society, so are nascent changes in the Internet likely to wreak big changes in the future.
- Former teacher sentenced in case of child molestation
- January 15, 2009
- Friday morning marked the end of a three-year scandal surrounding a former Basehor Elementary fifth-grade teacher accused of inappropriately touching his students.
- Advisory Council schedules meeting
- January 15, 2009
- The Wyandotte/Leavenworth Areawide Advisory Council with the Agency on Aging, will have its next meeting at 10 a.m. Jan. 28, at the West Wyandotte Branch Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kan.
- Safe removal of children a must in war
- January 15, 2009
- There are times when I’m not able to focus on the news, particularly when war situations are being shown. The sight of tiny children, wounded and outright killed, or traumatized by the death of their parents and siblings is an overwhelming picture of the real damages of war.
- Fun on the prison ballfield
- January 15, 2009
- The inmates always cheered for us and yelled at their own players.
- Divided memory causes headaches
- January 15, 2009
- If you ask me if I know who was the commanding general of the Union army at the first battle of Bull Run or who killed President Garfield, the answer is yes. If you further query me about when Bonner Springs or Edwardsville was incorporated or what the starting lineup of the Bonner Springs High School basketball team was in the 1984 state championship game, again I can perform flawlessly.
- Wyandotte County Democrats to meet
- January 15, 2009
- The January Wyandotte County Third Saturday Democratic Breakfast will be Saturday, Jan. 17, at Granny’s Chicken, 1340 Village West Parkway.
- Recreation signup begins Jan. 26
- January 15, 2009
- Field of Dreams is distributing recreation registration forms to all Basehor area schools on Jan. 26. Recreation forms are also available on the Field of Dreams Web site, playfod.net, starting Jan. 26.
- Pierce, ‘Cats calm Cyclones
- January 15, 2009
- With three seconds left in the third quarter, Anthony Pierce shot from half court.
- Bobcat Classic wrestling tourney opens Friday
- January 15, 2009
- On the Kansas Wresting Coaches Association Web site, which is dedicated to keeping high school wrestling fans abreast of the news, a simple poll question is asked: In your opinion, which Kansas tournament is the toughest?
- Fees considered for full-day kindergarten
- January 15, 2009
- The Basehor-Linwood School District is getting closer to a resolution on offering full-day kindergarten district-wide.
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