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5 Questions: Safe season
By Staff Report
December 2, 2009
With the holiday season upon us, Fairmount Township Fire Department Lt. Chris Angermuller shares tips to help make your holiday safe below
5 Questions: Falling folliage
By Staff Report
November 3, 2009
Dennis Patton, horticulturist with the Johnson County K-State Research and Extension office, discusses options for handling all those fall leaves below.
Wet grounds force cancellation of fall festival
By Staff Report
October 9, 2009
The city of Lansing announced Friday that the fall festival, Autumn in the Grove, has been canceled due to overwhelmingly wet and soggy conditions in Kelly Grove Park.
Kansas schools awarded an additional $301 million from stimulus program
By Staff Report
June 4, 2009
Topeka — The U.S. Department of Education announced it has released $301 million for Kansas schools under the federal economic stimulus program.
5 Questions: Growing Pains
Teacher offers tips for first-time gardeners
By Staff Report
April 22, 2009
Vicki Darr teaches biology and helps students at Basehor-Linwood High School grow plants. She says a secret to gardening is to spend time in your garden.
Roads OK but travelers advised to use caution
By Staff Report
March 28, 2009
Road conditions in the Kansas City metro area, including Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties, are holding steady at wet with no ice or slush, KDOT reports. But public affairs manager Kimberly Qualls still advises travelers in that area to use caution when driving.
I-435 ramps to close as road repairs start
By Staff Report
July 2, 2008
Weather permitting, starting Tuesday, July 8, various ramps at the Interstate 435 and Interstate 70 interchange will be closed for repair.
Hall uses pizza as educational tool
By Staff Report
March 26, 2008
On Tuesday at the Ag Hall nearly 600 schoolchildren learned where their food comes from, using as their example a perennially favorite meal of children: pizza.
Slew of events planned at University of St. Mary
By Staff Report
March 19, 2008
“Contemporary Genocide: Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo,” is the title of a presentation by the University of St. Mary Lawrence D. Starr Global Studies Institute.
Former Leavenworth librarian sentenced
By Staff Report
February 20, 2008
A former elementary school librarian from Leavenworth has been sentenced for producing child pornography that involved a preteen student.

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