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December 4, 2008
Chris Wristen, Sports Editor of the Chieftain-Sentinel-Dispatch newspapers, and Benton Smith of The Mirror in Tonganoxie, preview the upcoming boys basketball season in the Kaw Valley League.
December 4, 2008
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and our communities are turning out in fine numbers to support holiday events
By Scott Rothschild
11:13 a.m., December 4, 2008 Updated 12:36 p.m.
Kansas leaders Thursday said the proposal to build a biosecurity lab in the state was a historic development.
Sentinel staff reports
December 4, 2008
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback will spend part of his day Thursday at Fort Leavenworth, where he is expected to continue to voice his opposition to suggestion that the base become the new home to enemy combatants now being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
By Nicole Kelley
December 4, 2008
The turnout for this year’s Vaughn-Trent Christmas Parade and the Mayor’s Christmas Tree Lighting was higher then ever and there are a couple theories as to why.
By Nicole Kelley
December 4, 2008
Under the floodlights of the Wyandotte County Emergency Operations Command Unit, a crowd formed in the Edwardsville City Hall parking lot last week, waiting for the official kickoff of the holiday season.
By Chris Wristen
December 4, 2008
Ninth-year Bonner Springs High School wrestling coach Dan Burns describes his youth-laden team as a work in progress, and the Braves’ season-opener Tuesday night lived up to that billing.
By Chris Wristen
December 4, 2008
After spending the past three years lingering near the top of the Kaw Valley League standings without actually ascending to the throne, this just may be the season the Lansing Lions rise to the top of the KVL .
By Nicole Kelley
December 4, 2008
A little bit of Mexico will soon be coming to Bonner Springs and with it, comes some authentic cuisine.
By Nicole Kelley
December 4, 2008
Merle Zuel got a second chance at life, and he’s determined to make the most of it.
December 4, 2008
For most people, now is an extremely busy time of the year. People are rushing about, trying to balance work, special activities, home decorating and Christmas shopping. We are bombarded with advertisements recommending a variety of gifts for all ages.
By Clausie Smith
December 4, 2008
For most people, now is an extremely busy time of the year. People are rushing about, trying to balance work, special activities, home decorating and Christmas shopping. We are bombarded with advertisements recommending a variety of gifts for all ages.
By Rae Sedgwick
December 4, 2008
“I am tired tonight, and something, the wind maybe, or the rain, or the cry of a bird in the copse outside, has brought back the past, and its pain,” Ellen Wheeler Wilcox.
By Sandra Thomas
December 4, 2008
>It’s during the holidays that one seems to most miss those people now absent but once large in our lives. During the recent Thanksgiving celebration, my daughter hosted us at her home along with other family members and friends.
December 4, 2008
The week of Dec. 15-19, Bonner Springs High School and Turner High School will conduct the “Coming Together for a Cure” fundraiser to raise money for the KU Breast Cancer Research Center.
Troy Palenske
December 4, 2008
Perry-Lecompton High appeared in position to pull even with Topeka Hayden midway through the second quarter of Saturday’s Class 4A state football championship game.
December 4, 2008
The Bonner Springs Planning Commission approved plans for the new Price Chopper building.
By Nick Bates
December 4, 2008
Just hours before the Black and Orange scrimmage was to take place Tuesday night at the Bonner Springs YMCA , the Bonner Springs High School boys basketball team was loose — joking around and having an impromptu dunk contest.
By Nick Bates
December 4, 2008
As the first meet of the year approaches for the Bonner Springs boys swim team the Braves still have a lot of questions that have yet to be answered.
Special to The Chieftain
December 4, 2008
A networking group for agencies serving youths in Wyandotte County is back in business.
By Scott Rothschild
December 4, 2008
The Bonner Springs school district, like many across the state, is trying to figure out what to do about a substantial funding cut in its driver’s education program.
By John Beal
December 4, 2008
With college tuition continuing to rise at almost double the rate of inflation, one would like to think we’d be getting more bang for the buck, so to speak.
By Scott Rothschild
December 4, 2008
A $450 million federal lab dedicated to protecting the United States from disease outbreaks and bioterrorist attacks should be built in Manhattan, Kan., according to the Department of Homeland Security.
By Jim Finley
December 4, 2008
The national hype was centered around the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State football game last weekend because of its Big 12 — and possibly national championship — implications, but for my money the far more exciting game was the one between Kansas and Missouri in the Border Showdown.
By Nicole Kelley
December 4, 2008
Donald Strickland’s yard sign supporting Barack Obama is on its way to Arkansas.
December 4, 2008
A look back at this week in history in Bonner Springs, Edwardsville and Basehor.
By Nick Bates
December 4, 2008
In basketball a team has to maximize its opportunities to score easily.