John Beal
John Beal is a contributor to The Shawnee Dispatch, Bonner Springs Chieftain and Basehor Sentinel. He retired in February 2008 as editor of those newspapers.
Recent stories
- Photo acts as reminder to live in the moment
- May 13, 2010
- An old black-and-white photo hangs above my desk. The image has faded some over time, but its focus is sharp and you can still see it plainly.
- Springtime has sprung
- March 11, 2010
- It’s amazing what a difference a few days make.
- Beal: Spring has sprung
- March 9, 2010
- It’s amazing what a difference a few days make. A few days, that is, when the temperatures begin to rise and you begin to get the feeling that spring will really come again this year.
- United States has many reasons to give thanks during approaching holiday
- November 25, 2009
- Like the fellow said, when you’re up to your hips in alligators, it’s a little hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. OK, he didn’t say hips, but you get the drift
- Indoor perspective best for embracing the cold
- November 18, 2009
- It’s been so nice for so long, I guess we can be excused for being surprised when Old Man Winter finally blows his frigid breath down the backs of our necks.
- Beal: With grandkids gone, it’s back to dieting
- November 3, 2009
- The vision of a new, slimmer me beckons, of no longer having to shop in the “big and tall” sections. Now, maybe if I eat just one or two bites of that cheesecake …
- Blazers squeak past Braves in 5A soccer regional playoffs
- October 29, 2009
- On a gloomy night in Gardner, the Bonner Springs boys soccer team collected a gloomy result.
- Kids say the darndest things
- October 22, 2009
- Art Linkletter knew, of course.
- ‘Balloon boy’ proves Linkletter’s axiom
- October 20, 2009
- Art Linkletter knew, of course.
- Another black eye
- October 7, 2009
- In August of 1896 William Allen White was fit to be tied. Accosted by an angry populist mob on the streets of Emporia, he stormed into his office at the Emporia Gazette and wrote an editorial that he headed, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
Recent photos
Longtime Shawnee civic leader and funeral home director Gene Amos died Friday at age 78. Among his many memberships was with Shawnee’s Peter Smith American Legion Post, where he served as a member of the post’s honor guard, which conducts military observances for deceased veterans.
Darrel Donahue discusses his World War II memorabilia with Brad Harrington, left, Mary Ann Allen and Sheila Miller (in green coat). The large map at left traces Donahue's progress through German with Gen. George S. Patton's Third U.S. Army.
Slaves huddle in fear in this scene from "Underground," presented last weekend at the Lyric Theatre by Culture House. Among them are Jamaica Tomlin, left, and her brother, Montero, right, students at Clark Middle School.
James Clark serves up a sausage order to Scout Matthew Taylor at Boy Scout Troop 149's pancake feed Saturday at Bonner Springs United Methodist Church. Meanwhile Allen Holder, center, dispenses coffee.
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