Shawn Linenberger News editor
Shawn has been with The Mirror since 2001 and is the news editor.
Recent stories
- Pie-eating contest draws sweet-tooth contestants
- August 17, 2010
- Iommi Paulsen hadn’t been planning to compete Saturday at the Leavenworth County Fair
- Fair entries run gamut for Hoge sisters of Reno Bobwhites
- August 12, 2010
- A member of the Hoge family is a fashion designer.
- Leavenworth County Fair 2010: Fair entries run gamut for Hoge sisters of Reno Bobwhites
- August 10, 2010
- A member of the Hoge family is a fashion designer.
- Leavenworth County Fair 4-H projects keep sisters busy
- August 5, 2010
- For Destiny Mestagh and Mable Mestagh, it just made sense to be involved in 4-H and, subsequently, the Leavenworth County Fair.
- Leavenworth County Fair starts Monday, parade through downtown Tuesday
- August 3, 2010
- Week of activities in Tonganoxie
- Three-year-old continues strong recovery from barn gate accident
- July 22, 2010
- Brooklyn Sickman, 3, plays with a dollhouse alongside older sister, Saryn Hernandez, who is 13.
- Shawnee woman in serious condition after accident
- July 19, 2010
- A Shawnee woman was in serious condition Monday at an area hospital following a Friday accident in southern Leavenworth County.
- Leavenworth County attorney warning about asphalt company scamming elderly residents
- July 2, 2010
- The Leavenworth County attorney is warning Leavenworth County residents to be on the lookout for a fly-by-night asphalt company that already has scammed a few elderly Leavenworth residents.
- Fort Leavenworth pays final respects to fallen soldier
- Services take place for Army Col. John M. McHugh
- May 27, 2010
- Bagpipe chords of “Amazing Grace” played in the early afternoon Thursday at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery as a faint wind rustled two rows of American flags.
- Republicans square off at BBQ, but stand united against Dems
- May 26, 2010
- Republican candidates were busy touting their party at Saturday’s Leavenworth County Republican Party Barbecue in Tonganoxie.
Recent photos
Sisters Destiny (left) and Mable Mestagh, rural McLouth, are involved in several projects in 4-H, but they’re most involved in horses, which they will be showing Monday at the Leavenworth County Fair in Tonganoxie.
Sisters Destiny Mestagh and Mable Mestagh, rural McLouth, are involved in several projects in 4-H, but they’re most involved in horses, which they will be showing Monday at the Leavenworth County Fair in Tonganoxie.
From left, Kansas City Royals catcher Brayan Pena, Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael McHugh and his sisters Kelly and Kristen leave the pitcher's mound at Kauffman Stadium after Michael threw the first pitch Tuesday before the Kansas City-Texas game to honor their father, Col. John McHugh. Col. McHugh died May 18 in Kabul, Afghanistan from wounds suffered from a car bomb explosion. McHugh, assigned to the Battle Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, was deployed on a NATO mission. Michael is home on leave from a deployment in Iraq where he serves as a medical evacuation pilot. His unit with the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade is based out of Fort Riley.
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