Adrienne Newell
Adrienne recently graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where she studied in Chicago and reported for PCWorld.com in D.C. Now she lives in Kansas and reports on the happenings of Lansing, KS, finding local news much more sensible than technology legislation.
Recent stories
- New Decisions program helps LHS students achieve success
- March 10, 2005
- For students who need additional academic and emotional support, there’s a place at Lansing High School that can provide it. The New Decisions program is in its third year at the high school and has had a positive effect on its participants, said Mary Alice Schroeger, a program coordinator and LHS teacher.
- History of museum chronicled as it reopens
- February 24, 2005
- The Lansing Historical Museum reopens from its winter hiatus Saturday, making this year the museum’s seventh.
- Lansing Historical Society at a glance
- February 18, 2005
- Facts about the Lansing Historical Society
- Prison delivers bicycles for use in Iraq
- Program also teams with Guard wings in Wichita, Topeka
- February 17, 2005
- Lansing’s homegrown bike giveaway program has gone international.
- Board OKs curriculum changes
- February 17, 2005
- Lansing School Board approved curriculum changes at the high school and renewed administrator contracts at its meeting Tuesday.
- ‘Stepping out in faith’ puts new resident in business
- February 17, 2005
- In September, David Escobar moved from Las Vegas to Lansing. By October he had quit his job with Osco Drug in Kansas City. And by early January, he had completely changed his life.
- Lessons in love
- February 10, 2005
- A year after she’d graduated, Lansing High School alumna Missy Runnebaum returned to LHS to watch her younger brother play basketball : and ended up watching the new coach instead. That Valentine’s Day, she and the coach went on their first date.
- Inmates’ rehabilitation includes daily jobs in city departments
- 12:00 a.m., February 10, 2005 Updated 10:43 a.m.
- The words “correctional facility” don’t have many mainstream positive associations. In Lansing, the situation is different. The correctional facility is a cornerstone of the local economy, but it also serves as a source of community service and savings.
- Snow causes wrecks, cancels school
- February 10, 2005
- There was no school for Lansing students Wednesday, but the worst of the weather system hit Tuesday afternoon just as school was getting out, city officials said.
- Father’s return from Iraq celebrated
- February 10, 2005
- On Jan. 21, Maj. Drew Brickson returned home to Lansing from a four-month stint in Iraq. That evening he celebrated a belated Christmas with his sons, Benjamin, a first-grader at Lansing Elementary School, and Joseph, a preschooler, and his wife, Jodie.
Recent photos
Bernd Ingram and Ali Zeck
Members of the Lansing High School band, shown here on Veterans Day, hope to perform in March in Dallas at the Festival of Music competition.
The award-winning light display on Rock Creek Drive.
Michael Heuer, Lansing police officer, patrols the newly annexed area.
Lisa Madsen
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What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year?
It would probably be the Dodge commercial with the farmers.
