Nicole Kelley Reporter/Copy editor

Nicole Kelley is a reporter/copy editor with the Bonner Springs Chieftain/Basehor Sentinel. She began working for The World Co. in May 2007 at The Lansing Current. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas, where she was managing editor of the University Daily Kansan. She also was an intern with the Kansas City Star and The Mirror in Tonganoxie.

Recent stories

Front Street business owners laud construction crews’ efforts
March 18, 2010
When the Front Street construction project started in October 2009, Matt Beets, Bonner Springs project manager, knew it was going to be complicated.
Company owner deems Marble Crazy a success
March 11, 2010
Marble artists from across the country were at the top of their game Saturday, showing off their art for hundreds of people to see.
Marble Crazy event to be crazier than ever
Marble celebratory event will bring 22 artists to Bonner
February 25, 2010
As the 10th anniversary of their Marble Crazy event nears, founders of the Moon Marble Company, Bruce Breslow and Lynda Sproules, are excited for what’s to come.
Five Questions: Tax time
February 24, 2010
Five Questions about AARP Tax-Aide
Kansas Entertainment gets green light for new casino
February 18, 2010
The final hurdle has been passed, and developers of the Hollywood casino overlooking Turn 2 at the Kansas Speedway in Wyandotte County are free to move forward with construction.
New downtown Bonner business prepares for opening
February 15, 2010
A new business coming to downtown Bonner Springs, Sweet Repeats Consignment Boutique, will play host to an inventory drive to prepare for opening.
Class aims to change participants’ eating habits
February 11, 2010
Fast, frenzied and failing. That’s the way registered nurse Vivian Neuharth describes today’s eating habits of the American people.
Leavenworth ready for Sampler Festival
February 11, 2010
As the 2010 Kansas Sampler Festival approaches, host city Leavenworth is ready to go.
Kansas Sampler committee confident about progress
February 10, 2010
As the 2010 Kansas Sampler Festival approaches, host-city Leavenworth is ready to go.
Family business prepares move to Edwardsville
February 4, 2010
Earp Distribution has made some changes since it was founded in the 1950s, but the biggest change happened through a mixture of chance and a good reputation.

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Recent photos

Jennifer Laughlin, curator of the Wyandotte County Museum, shows off photos included in the museum newest exhibit, WOWs!: Women Ordnance Workers of the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant. The exhibit, depicting women working in factories during World War II, will be on display through May 31.

Michelle and Tom Seibel and their 4-year-old son, Cole, have planned a fundraising event to benefit Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The Seibels lost their 9-month-old daughter, Lillie, in April 2009 to SIDS.

Barbara Dooley, a volunteer with the AARP Tax-Aide service, gives tax preparation advice to Eric Steck of Merriam at the Antioch Library in Merriam.

Barbara Dooley, a volunteer with the AARP Tax-Aide service, gives tax preparation advice to Eric Steck, of Merriam, at the Antioch Public Library location in Shawnee. Bill Peterson, Partnership and Communications Specialist with AARP Tax-Aide Kansas, talks about the AARP Tax-Aide program in this Five Questions.

Registered nurse Vivian Neuharth shows participants of her nutrition class in Edwardsville different types of food they should cut out of their diets and foods they should be eating more of. Neuharth said that a person’s diet not only affects them physically but also mentally.

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