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- Youth basketball results
- Kerry Roberts teams compete in league games
- December 12, 2007
- Youth basketball teams competed in the Kerry Roberts basketball league last weekend. In third and fourth grade “A” division games; the Black team defeated the Gray team 23-0. Morgan Reed led the Black team with 13 points and Julie Ann Jackson scored six points. In another game, the Navy team defeated Gold, 6-2.
- KU is deserving of Orange Bowl berth
- December 12, 2007
- How many readers out there think that Missouri got a raw deal by the Orange Bowl committee in their selection of Kansas in the Orange Bowl Game?
- Bonner Springs wrestlers prep for Lee Summit tourney
- December 12, 2007
- Being competitive will be important for the Bonner Springs wrestling team this weekend. The Braves will compete in the Lee Summit Christmas Tournament on Friday and Saturday and it is the best competition the team will see all season. Coach Dan Burns has had state placers wrestlers who didn’t make finals in the tournament, which has 24 teams entered in it.
- Cook turns in personal-best performance in meet
- December 12, 2007
- Senior Josh Cook of the Bonner Springs High School swim team opened the season with the best meet of his career. Cook, a co-captain, placed second in the 100 breaststroke to top the Braves in their first meet last Wednesday (Dec. 5) in their YMCA pool. His second-place finish was his best at Bonner Springs. “I started out pretty strong,” Cook said. “But I got tired towards the end and was just trying to tough it out.”
- Basehor girls win game to remember
- December 12, 2007
- Sometimes plans slip away. Elaborate plans fall with a slip in the ice. I planned to attend a bunch of sporting events Saturday. I planned to watch the basketball tournaments where the Basehor-Linwood and Bonner Springs teams were playing. The schedules had broken in my favor. Times were lined up. Ice was not going to stand in my way.
- Girls team splits two basketball games
- December 12, 2007
- Members of the Bonner Springs girls basketball team are learning the importance of repetition early in the 2007-08 basketball season. They are learning the value of shooting the basketball well, playing sound defense and getting point production from various players. Players are understanding the contributions that a freshman can make in Chelsey Crawford who scored nine points in the basketball game on Saturday. “As she goes, we go,” coach Clay Oakes said.
- Braves slip in icy classic
- December 12, 2007
- During the first two games of the Bonner Springs Metro Classic basketball tournament coach Ryan Hull saw two different teams in home jerseys. He saw a team that played well for three quarters and lost to Atchison. He also saw a team that lost where players showed the effects of playing a game less than 12 hours after the tournament opener.
- Ground broken for library
- December 12, 2007
- About 100 people turned out Wednesday for the long-awaited groundbreaking for the new Bonner Springs Library.
- Push is coming to shove for Wyandotte County casino plans
- December 12, 2007
- This week marks the end of the first, local phase in decision making for the casino proposal-selection process for Wyandotte County. On Friday all casino proposals endorsed by the Unified Government and Edwardsville must be forwarded to the Kansas Lottery Commission, which will choose one proposal to be awarded the gambling license for the county.
- Santa’s Express chugs on at Ag Hall
- Neither snow, rain, gloom nor cold stop activities
- December 12, 2007
- Grinch weather was no preclude to a good time Saturday at the Ag Hall.
- Edwardsville pondering top position
- Council, administrator in negotiations aimed at making job permanent
- December 12, 2007
- Edwardsville’s days of having interim leaders may soon be past.
- New Web site debuts today
- December 12, 2007
Today marks the introduction of the Chieftain’s new, improved Web site.
- New Council member named to replace Lane
- December 12, 2007
- Five days after a City Council member resigned in disgrace, Edwardsville learned the name of his successor.
- New restaurant fishes for business
- December 12, 2007
When most people think of good seafood, they don’t think of Kansas. But a new restaurant in Bonner Springs is hoping to change that.
- Volunteers sought for annual bird count
- December 12, 2007
- The annual Camp Naish Christmas Bird Count is Friday, Dec. 21, and organizers are looking for all the volunteers they can get. And you don’t need to be able to tell a cardinal from a condor to be able to help.
- Club raises funds by selling student artwork
- December 12, 2007
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Local residents have the opportunity to support arts in Bonner Springs and Basehor by purchasing a unique version of something they’ll probably be buying anyway: cards.
- Consignment shop is all in the family
- December 12, 2007
Edwardsville has a new store, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Schuler’s, 109 1/2 Fourth St., is a consignment shop that sells merchandise and also offers Internet sales services.
- Bonner Springs date book
- December 12, 2007
- What’s happening in Bonner Springs
- Schools collect goods for the needy
- December 12, 2007
- Food drives at five schools have collected more than 6,300 items for Vaughn-Trent Community Services’ Christmas Basket program for families. in need this season.
- Clean off sidewalks, postal service urges
- December 12, 2007
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The Postal Service asks customers to make sure carriers aren’t put at unnecessary risk.
- 4-H club news
- December 12, 2007
- News of Glenwood and Wyandotte Pioneers 4-H clubs
- A good time to think of children
- December 12, 2007
- The holiday season is a time to celebrate children.
- Aunt personified the seasonj
- December 12, 2007
- Aunt Mary personified the holiday season, and her toffee recipe keeps her memory alive.
- Remember when
- December 12, 2007
- Tidbits from The Chieftain’s files of long ago.
- Old toys mix with memories
- December 12, 2007
- She is all a 3-year-old should be, and more. Her laughter breaks out, wafts above the dine of football games and the clatter of dishes, like a reminder of all things good. She is dressed in a pink dress, grey striped socks, and tennis shoes and has ribbons in her hair.
- Christmas tree buying habits have changed
- December 12, 2007
- For a majority of Americans there has been a major change in holiday decorating during the past decade or so. Now, the majority of Americans have artificial trees rather than trekking to the Christmas tree farm to select a live one.
- The wonder of childhood
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
- December 12, 2007
- Francis P. Church’s answer to an 8-year-old’s doubts still rings true. It’s not just a classic in American journalism, but a classic testament to the power of faith and imagination.
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