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- Fascination with trains leads to volunteer role at Baldwin City’s Midland Railway
- April 23, 2014
- Mike Beem struck up a conversation with a stranger Saturday as they stood on the Santa Fe Depot’s north platform waiting for a Midland Railway train to pull into the station. Words came easy to the two men as they talked trains and railroad. The stranger told Beem, a volunteer with the Midland Railway, he was retired from the Union Pacific Railroad and used to make regular runs through Kansas City west to Marysville.
- Five signs spring has arrived in Baldwin City
- April 17, 2014
- Nature provides many signs of spring’s arrival. In Kansas, we look for blooming redbuds, the arrival of song birds and, of course, dandelions. The following are five things more particular to Baldwin City that signal spring’s arrival.
- Tonganoxie dismisses case against green stripe ‘leprechaun’
- April 16, 2014
- The case of the green stripe appears to be closed.
- Three dead in Kansas City Jewish community shootings
- April 13, 2014
- Three people were shot and killed Sunday afternoon in suburban Kansas City, and a spokeswoman for a local hospital said a 15-year-old boy is in critical condition.
- Kansas City Connection: Easter brunch, Earth Day fun
- April 13, 2014
- Brunch as a social institution might not have caught on in Kansas City the way it has in Portland (at least the fictitious version of the city presented in “Portlandia”). But Kansas City’s restaurants offer an impressive array of Sunday brunch options, especially on Easter.
- Kansas City Connection: All the best of KC Film Fest
- April 6, 2014
- Given its growth over the past few years, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Kansas City Film Fest eventually became one of the nation’s more popular cinema events. For now, the size is just right — there are plenty of interesting feature films and shorts to choose from, yet the festival is still affordable and accessible to fans of all interest levels.
- Kansas City Connection: The Royals return, along with several great concerts
- March 30, 2014
- For a fun, relaxing night out in Kansas City, Kauffman Stadium can’t be beat. Good-natured crowds, footlong sausages and salty pretzels, cold beer and dip-and-dots ice cream, fountains, games, giveaways and music.
- Artsy Bonner Springs businesses to cohabitate in former Masonic Hall
- March 27, 2014
- It is a well-known spot with a history dating back more than 100 years, and it’s about to be used in a whole new way.
- Kansas City Connection: Irish food any day of the year
- March 23, 2014
- On March 17 at my downtown Kansas City office, amid the sounds of drunken revelry and bagpipes from the nearby Power & Light District, a colleague explained to me why she never celebrates St. Patrick’s Day. “Why should I?” she asked dismissively. “I’m Irish every day of the year.”
- Tonganoxie hit with another green stripe Wednesday
- 12:26 p.m., March 19, 2014 Updated 02:24 p.m.
- Another green line magically has appeared in downtown Tonganoxie.
- A day in the life of chemo: Positivity is medicine, too
- March 19, 2014
- About to start chemotherapy the other day, Michael Meyer was in a joking mood.
- Baldwin City couple turns to medical marijuana as lifeline for 2-year-old son
- March 19, 2014
- The lower-body cast that 2-year-old Otis Reed has worn since breaking his right femur Feb. 23 is decorated the red and blue of the Kansas Jayhawks. There’s a lot of pride of place in that choice.
- Kansas City Connection: Sporting KC scores with new food options
- March 16, 2014
- It’s hard to imagine Sporting Kansas City having a much better season than it did in 2013. Winners of the MLS Cup, and a close second in the race for the Supporter’s Shield (awarded to the Major League Soccer club with the most points in regular season play), 2013 was one for the books.
- Tonganoxie St. Patrick’s Parade rolling through downtown Saturday
- March 10, 2014
- Irish eyes likely will be smiling Saturday in downtown Tonganoxie.
- Kansas City Connection: Big 12 tournament, ‘Star Trek’ coming to downtown
- March 9, 2014
- Spring is almost here, and downtown Kansas City is poised to host one of the most action-packed weekends of 2014 thanks to two very different cultural phenomena: College basketball and Star Trek. Though the two worlds aren’t expected to cross over, you might be able to experience both if you act quickly on tickets.
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