Story archive for March 2009
Tuesday, March 31
- Senate amends House bill to include smoking ban
- Senate concurs on natural gas bill
- Exercising with baby
- Hornets sweep Ichabods
- Northwest Missouri hires ESU assistant McCollum as new coach
- All-Area Basketball teams
- Rec commission considers Levy
- Two killers get ‘hard 50’ sentences
- Legislature likely to approve gas bill
- Health Agenda
- ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’
- Mennonite Heritage Museum
- ‘Pulpwood Queen’ heads home to Emporia
- Feeding the Hungry
- Emporia - Lyon County Most Wanted
- Auditions for Community Theatre
- Emporia city commission
Monday, March 30
- Rec commission contemplates request for mill levy increase
- ESU assistant Ben McCollum accepts head coaching job at NW Missouri
- Potato bar repeat
- Americus News
- Hillsboro woman dies in weather-related crash
- Campaign signs
- The Week Ahead
- Productive week for lawmakers
- Money needed now
- Senior Center is soggy
- Wilson, Gardner take second place
- 3 Spartan wrestlers compete in Senior Classic
- Honeycutt wins triple-jump title
- Snowed out
- Balanced effort leads Home team
- Club Agenda
- Elder Citizens Club
- On dean’s list
- After the storm
- Not as dangerous
- Pick and choose
- Lucky, a horse
- Hiding its light
- Weekend Photos Wanted
Saturday, March 28
- Ice causing downed power lines
- ESU tennis teams lose to Truman
- Still the One
- Decker expects Spartans to go through some growing pains
- Spring is often the best time to access soil compaction
- Don’t make it worse
- ‘Sunflower’ Lehrer returns to roots for benefit
- This store will put you to sleep
- Flawed Formula
- Blizzard, freezing rain hammer Kansas
- Menus
- Republican women meeting
- Flint Hills Digest
- Parole denied for Milford murderer
- Granada to show classic movies
- Arts council nears fundraising goal
- Kroger recalls pistachios
- Community Center
- Meet a Gazette Mom
- Wanted: Good Samaritans for foster dog
- Kiwanis thanks
- Homeless in America
Friday, March 27
- ESU closed due to weather
- Rogler talks
- Novel explores Wright and women in his life
- Book Sale Time
- Car-deer accident causes injuries
- Foolishness and sense
- Vote
- Church News
- Distrust studies
- Not a fit?
- ‘Grace in Action’ is set next week
- Rights of man
- County approves reallocation for cook site
- Friday thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- Public hearing is held on Highway 50 project
- FHTC Community Connections
- Upcoming events at FHTC
- Firearm training for the ladies coming up in chanute
- Emporia’s Weekend events
- Bank plans Emporia branch
- EHS swimmers show potential at 1st meet
- Online land sale
- Emporia hunkers down for storm
- Americus News
Thursday, March 26
- Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi classes
- EHS hopes hits start coming
- Hornet pitchers shut down Wayne State offense
- ESU Research and Creativity Forum celebrates 25 years
- Rapids’ gas co. bill moves toward vote
- A Sister’s Mission
- Concert tonight
- Making a family budget, step by step
- Street-corner donations, Fish for Lent
- Truck theft from biz lot
- Fruit bud damage
- Fitting the crime
- Vote ‘Yes’ April 7
- Vote ‘No’
- News and rumors
- City discusses historic district
Wednesday, March 25
- Some sirens fail morning test
- Emporia's sirens will now be tested on Saturday
- Williams out
- County commission talks cook site
- Hospital's eyes on the future
- ESU weekend baseball series moved back
- Go for the grains
- Moore Sports
- Plea to Newman
- Stuck with the bill
- Politically offensive
- Earth Hour
- Hoover in Emporia
- City to get Italian restaurant
- Program Saturday to honor troops
- Morris County offers cardiac rehab
- Magazine honors Rep. Peggy Mast
- Emporian wins $8,735 on lottery Keno ticket
- Single parents have resources at ESU
- Health center says goodbye to director
- Safety partners
- Electric Truck
- Habitat concert is set
Tuesday, March 24
- Interim director named at health center
- 3 Spartans earn All-League honors
- ESU goes on road to play at home
- Edwards makes All-American teams
- Peggy Mast honored
- Changes at refuge?
- Safety partners
- Easter Bunny to help Mission, food kitchen
- Clarence Arndt served the people of Lyon County
- Few attend school candidate forum
- Vektek thieves plead guilty
- Young Mother’s Story
- City Housing board proposed
- Grassroots help for Liberia
- Blue Sky Sculpture
- Lyon County Commission
- Health Agenda
- 5 Steps to a better you
- Clemons boys buried Monday
Monday, March 23
- City commission identifies goals for 2009
- Turnout small for candidate forum
- Emporia will not receive KDOT stimulus money
- City goal session
- High-tunnel workshop set Wednesday at Tech College
- Anti-ban signs are stolen
- Teen Pregnancy
- Foreclosures rising, as are sales
- Special meeting
- Minimal evidence of accident
- Coffey Co. man sentenced for sex crime
- Time after time
- Improve quality
- The wrong course
- Food lottery
- Try ‘trickle-up’
- Because we love them
- Emporia State sweeps Incarnate Word
- Hornets make statement at Central Missouri
- Self doing his best coaching
Saturday, March 21
- Business has new name
- Congress on the boil
- Building Permits
- Helping Camp Alexander
- Menus
- Tobacco, liquor taxes questioned
- Graham, Hornets hurting after loss to Central
- Charges dismissed against Swafford
- Prepare for rangeland burns
- Ag’s pizza party
- Meet a Gazette Mom
Friday, March 20
- Charges dropped against Swafford
- ‘Pass it on’ programs important for future of hunting
- Optimist All-Stars announced
- Hornets out for revenge
- Sixth-graders design breakfast superheroes
- Fifth-grader jumps over 46 minutes
- A lesson from Psalms
- Church News
- Concert, Art Exhibit
- Young Adult novel is gripping to the end
- Pats on the Back
- Bus to the market
- Against the ban
- No patriots there
- Voter problem could derail Sale of Rapids’ Municipal Gas company
- Lawmaker says school cuts necessary
- Auction raises $950 for fund honoring Beau Arndt
- Tax Break little help
- Rapids will vote on sale of Gas Co.
- Bank rating error
- Auto burglary investigated
- Elmdale dinner
- Democrats to meet
Thursday, March 19
- Gang initiation rumors untrue
- Sports shorts
- Hornets’ 3-run sixth enough to extend streak
- County discusses interim health center head
- Casey Woods is chosen as new director for Emporia Main Street
- Hot water on demand
- Thanks to all who helped
- Bits about microbes again
- What does that mean?
- Rejecting federal money
- Pancakes for shelter
- Card shower requested
- Two return to Emporia to open audiology business
- City approves resurfacing of Commercial
- Smoke ban in Kansas is tabled
- It’s a five-star bank
Wednesday, March 18
- Raytown homicides have Emporia connection
- Snuffed out
- Voters Guide
- Burkhead named player of the week
- Edwards makes all
- Young Spartans show potential
- Wanted: Hornet big man
- KU's boathouse
- Who to blame
- So proud
- Away from the kids
- Wonderful, easy cakes for everyone
- Meals factory not good match for city
- Woods hired by Main Street
- Bowyer on reality show
- Emporian pleads guilty to child porn
- Saving rates rising
- Emporian builds a tiny engine
- Interim officer needed at health department
Tuesday, March 17
- Olpe Boys Place 2 Players on All-LCL 1st Team
- To Newton
- For the ban
- Rights and wrongs
- Good sense needed
- Taking from the rich, etc.
- Flood insurance facts and fallacies
- Men’s Golf Association
- Health Agenda
- Get your green
- Election questions answered
- Kansas Bill could tax Scout Cookies
- When sirens blow, heed the warnings and take cover
- Rising on the Hill
- Emporian pleads in porn case
Monday, March 16
- Emporia city commission
- Card shower requested
- Group’s promise
- Very real risk
- A matter of choice
- More trouble on the street
- Jayhawkers and Border Ruffians
- Rural girls cap 24-1 season with State championship
- Arndt makes All-Centennial 1st team
- Building Permits
- Sears celebrates new name
- ESU finishes 4-1 at AAUW Showcase
- Honeycutt wins Indoor championship
- Emporia State sweeps Hays
- Olpe finishes 3rd at State
- Lady Hornets fight to the finish
- Carroll run sinks Emporia High
- Big donation
- The Week Ahead
- Pancakes go like hotcakes
- Legislators discuss economy, energy at Emporia Forum
- Spelling Well
- Senior Calendar
- Club Agenda
- Women’s clubs
- In ‘Who’s Who’
- Emporians receive statewide honors for work against violence
Sunday, March 15
Saturday, March 14
- West Texas A&M ends Emporia State's season
- Detwiler takes 4th
- EHS girls finish 4th at State
- Two steps behind the beat
- Tracking farmers
- Hornet baseball beats Fort Hays
- Riley leads Rural to 6A title game
- Olpe girls drop close one to Ellis in 2A semis
- Streak, title hopes end
- Hornets relieved after overtime win
- Clarine Knapp
- Honored for advocacy
- Menus
- Flint Hills Digest
- Stemming the tide of cancer
- Lowe’s postpones Emporia project
- Mission of Dental Mercy
- Friendship makes retinal surgery available in Emporia
Friday, March 13
- Emporia State survives with an OT win
- Lowe's Postpones Emporia Store
- Final: Great Bend 39, Emporia 35
- Retriever trial, crawdad banquet should be tons of fun
- Council Grove battles, but falls to top-seeded Hutch Trinity
- Olpe girls roll to 2A State Semifinals
- Community connections classes offered this spring
- Tech college to hold open house
- Tech College opens energy and automation lab
- Learning patience
- Church News
- Marine’s memoir is inspirational
- Art therapy
- ESU Lectures on Liberty series opens with author-historian
- Called on the challenge
- Vote no
- Friday Thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- City of Hartford meeting
- Smashed and abandoned, business is left to wait
- Weekend events
- So far, so good for county
- At home in Emporia
Thursday, March 12
- Karjala chosen as 5A's best assistant
- Sports Shorts
- Olpe upset in 2A
- Looking for classmates
- Do some digging
- 65 years together
- Give until it helps
- City approves five potential stimulus projects
- Main Street to interview applicants on Tuesday
- Chief says hospital could save $3 million
- Siren repair work
- Big shot pushes EHS to semis
- Toward the Popular Vote
- The News, Briefly
- City, county Commissions discuss consolidating dispatch services
- Here is some guidance for turbulent markets
- Install an Electric Outlet
- Zoning approved for new rock quarry
- Strawberries for the Home Garden
Wednesday, March 11
- Final: Emporia 38, Lansing 35
- Some Emporia tornado sirens not working
- Cinco royalty
- Emporia girls adjust lineup
- Pitching out of the cold
- An Irish food festival
- It's about rights
- More power to Sebelius
- Legislators: Stimulus a 'Game-Changer'
- Area agencies receive arts grants
- Stimulus money available for farms
- Shady salesman?
- New job, new challenges
Tuesday, March 10
- Be wary of aerial photos
- Oakleaf concert
- Technical College auction a success
- Superintendent is hired at Madison
- Lost Anniversary card delivered
- ESU Head explains budget situation
- Practice makes perfect
- City leaders discuss goals
- Emporia, Lansing enter state on winning streaks
- Less than $100 damage in house fire
- Lyon County Commission
- New rules for immunizations
- Health Agenda
- Republican Women meeting
- Marsh accepts job in Johnson County
- Seeking shelter
- Stretching: Another way to move
Monday, March 9
- Agendas
- Provost establishes scholarship at ESU
- Quilters talk about Depression days
- Work to begin on Highway 50
- Settlement in lawsuit leaves Wingo in charge of Angel Food Ministries
- Olpe boys win substate, undefeated season continues
- Hornets steal win
- Loucks finishes 9th at state
- Hutchinson ends Emporia High’s season
- Lady Hornets back in familiar territory
- A title-less performance
- Lady Spartans will open State against Lansing
- Zoning requests
- The Week Ahead
- Transplant recovery going well
- Market plans to build on record year
- Painting the town red
- Renovating ESU’s ‘Living Room’
- ‘March Madness’
- Lowe’s questions
- The marketplace of the community
- Granny scam surfaces again
Sunday, March 8
Saturday, March 7
- Bowyer will appear on "Wind Tunnel"
- EHS boys lose in substate
- Lady Hornets roll in MIAA semis
- Tips sought in Hartford burglary
- Salmonella reported in Kansas
- Hartford bridge closing
- Angel Food settlement reached
- New lawyer on duty
- Meet a Gazette Mom
- New construction
- Flint Hills Beef Fest results released
- Healthy animals means healthy food
- Not much trouble for ESU Women
- EHS’S Martin bowls 514 series at Girls State Tournament
- Madison moves on to face Crest
- Twice is nice for Lady Spartans
- Vanderman sentenced to 12 months for fatal collision
- Emporia Police get stimulus money
- Depression-era projects live on
- Simpler, Harder Times
- Menus
- 90th birthday party
- Flint Hills Digest
- Generosity
- Making the choice
Friday, March 6
- EHS girls headed back to State
- Vanderman receives jail sentence
- 2009 Beef Fest entries now being taken
- Winter Furniture auction this weekend
- Teachers’ fast-food work benefits students, schools
- Rapist in Scuffle after verdict
- Emporia will get preview of Symphony
- Weekend Events
- Home Front Memories
- Emporian accused of theft through federal contracts
- Arndt death reminds us of importance of safety, ethics
- SBU poses matchup problems
- Olpe stays undefeated, advances to Substate championship
- EHS moves on to final
- End of the road for Emporia State
- ESU women beat SBU
- No talk about political plans
- Happiness is more than a warm puppy
- Has his reservations
- Andrew Jackson's legacy remembered
- Burglary of vehicle at high school
- Men accused in 2 attacks on women
- Hutchinson man pleads guilty in airport robbery
- Pats on the Back
- Mystery comedy
- Kindergarten orientation set in April
- Students begin testings to determine AYP results
- Students get time off this month
- County Commission will buy a truck for FEMA trailer
- City commission calls special meeting
- Faith News
Thursday, March 5
- ESU loses to Washburn
- V-day focuses on women’s issues
- University recognizes employee service
- Sports shorts
- Dream Come True
- State berth just a win away
- Here’s some advice on investing in recession
- The Advantages of Ceiling Fans
- Lost opportunities
- Prisoner fights handcuffs
- To the parents of Hunter and Terra
- Good Causes
- Time to order Angel Food for March
- The News, Briefly
- Sales tax revenues are down in county
- City approves repair plan for old Soden’s bridge
- Sampling Asia
- Oakleaf is first Granada Concert
Wednesday, March 4
- March is National Nutrition month
- Nutritious cereal for the nation
- ESU loses at Newman
- Council Grove wins in 2 OTs
- Canales key to EHS' postseason run
- A bigger danger
- Earlier budget decisions
- A busy 40 days
- Emporia - Lyon County Most Wanted
- Recital
- Ex-Emporian recovering after cell transplant
- Cardiac group agrees to pay 1.3 million fine
- Kiwanis Flapjacks
- Main Street interviews
- Former Emporia rehab will become meals kitchen
- January sales tax collection third lowest since enacted
- Oakleaf Band to perform in Emporia
Tuesday, March 3
- Coach's intuition leads to game winner
- ESU guard Wilbern makes All-MIAA second team
- Olpe moves on to 2nd round of substate
- Health Agenda
- Anybody can ‘Tri’
- Emporia State's Edwards named MIAA player of the year
- Online Chat about Weddings
- A friend of the wind
- A Kansas wonder plowed under?
- State budget now focus for lawmakers
- Clean air Group must report donors
- Angel Food Ministries corporate office is searched by FBI and IRS
- Fire damages Rural Home
- Speaker for Women’s History Month on Thursday
- Americus News
- About Town
- Drive nets 92 potential bone-marrow donors
- ESU professors speak at composition convention
- City commission agenda
- Extension: Septic Tank additives not needed
Monday, March 2
- Spartans open Substate at Newton
- Loucks wins regional title, Martin also makes state
- Madison comes back, wins regional
- Hornet men finish 2nd at MIAA Indoor championships, win 6 individual titles
- Title win emotional for Buckbee
- Hornets beat Tigers to finish in 3rd place in MIAA
- Outright Champions
- It's official: Sebelius introduced to Washington
- Wedding chat
- The Week Ahead
- Emporia lawmakers speculate on changes in Topeka
- Obama taps Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as health chief
- Champions!
- Senior Calendar
- Club Agenda
- Community group opens Admire computer lab
- Taking the Plunge
- Kindergarten visit and screening
- Emporian in accident
- Sending Sebelius to Washington
- Obama’s plans lack details
- Horsin' Around
- The People Speak