Story archive for May 2010
Sunday, May 30
- Power outages in Emporia
- Eastside park barbecue draws crowd
- ESU's Robinson wins national title in high jump
- Woman injured in one-vehicle accident
Saturday, May 29
- Emporia High boys track finishes fourth at state
- Chase County softball team finishes 3rd at state
- 4-H News
- 'Catalyst for Change'
- Moderation and variety
- About Town
- Menus
- Code enforcement overhaul
- Water the lawn, wash your hair
- Girl Scout volunteers recognized
- Saddle ’em up
- Plenty of action at zoo in June
- Emporia's Little Houses
- Girl Scout volunteers recognized
- Briefcase
- Chase Co. advances to semis
- Spartans have work to do
- Sports briefs
- Final kick
Friday, May 28
- Heineken interview to air
- Safe sanctuaries
- Delaney writes coming-of-age tale
- Arts Notes
- Gas prices
- Green energy jobs to jump
- Friday Thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- Democrats meet, Driving class, Close a road, open another, Water festival, Seminar for caregivers
- Four Spartan soccer players earn recognition
- Bulldogs earn three first-teamers
- Lady Hornets finish No. 3 in attendance
- Gill addresses drug awareness dinner
- Madison senior set for State track
- County sticks with ESB
- Dive in!
- Saturday concert
- Think boating safety this weekend
- ENT docs to see patients at Newman
- Agencies ask for slices of alcohol-fund pie
- Public sees rail-route options
- Governor hopeful Brownback to name running mate
Thursday, May 27
- Sports Shorts
- 3 Spartans named all-league
- Clint’s crazy year continues
- Fun, Then Focus
- Campbell named D-2’s best
- Respect, courtesy and recognition
- A variety of comments
- Mental health Center presents budget request
- Westar, FHTC team up
- Hospital looks for ways to generate revenue
- Good Causes
- Mast seeks 7th term in house
- ERC-city pact inches forward
- State rep: Technical education key to future
- Trip of a lifetime
Wednesday, May 26
- Praeger spells out Health Care Act
- Memorial day full of services
- Weekend activities planned at Eastside
- Specialty Work
- Appeals court overturns rape conviction
- Judge dismisses juvenile case for inconsistencies
- Crime of the Week
- Vehicle Tags & a Reform Party meeting
- Friendly Competition
- Picnic safety tips
- Cooking with Logan Elementary
- Pearson up early to prepare for State
- Howze hoping experience helps at Nationals
- Obama wants to increase border security
Tuesday, May 25
- Energy U-10 finishes 4th at Hillsboro
- Lebo gets two on 8-man all-star team
- Agler shoots 90 at state
- Kent’s sights on triple title
- Big band brings musical treat to town
- Hospital owns buildings
- L-CAT, camp team up for summer
- Prime Time for Life
- Mucking stalls
- Lunch and Learn
- Hill to run for 5th term
- Memorial Day weekend at the preserve
- An unjust law
- The scent of a best seller
- Be responsible
- The wrong decision
- Bible study, Soup for Farmers Market, Fraud education, Card shower
- Congress will vote to allow gays to serve openly in the military
Monday, May 24
- Contracts on school board agenda
- Pack Goats
- Chase County will open against Inman
- 2-1A baseball pairings set
- Community News
- Honorary degrees
- Coach to speak
- Meetings, events fill the week ahead
- City to hear about Amtrak plan
- Spartans Finish Strong
- Obama seeks to cut pork barrel spending
Saturday, May 22
- Emporia police officer hurt in car accident
- Art exhibit
- Another way to volunteer
- Crime of the week
- Menus
- New mechanic on Mechanic Street
- Community Foundation spring grants awarded
- KDOT will show rail options
- Jumping In
- A policy of neglect
- Building Permits
- Briefcase
- Overall optimism
- Spartan boys roll to title
- Good start in the pool
- MHS wins both regional titles
- More transition ahead
Friday, May 21
- Lots of help
- Friday Thoughts is a light-hearted commentary.
- Pats on the Back
- ESU proposes 4.8 tuition, fee increase
- Drug court graduation positive experience
- Texting is significant distraction
- Texting and driving
- Arts Notes
- Agencies to get new equipment
- Flag display educates
- A new barbecue bible
- Graham, Albritton earn NCBWA All-Region honor
- ESU puts 6 on NFCA All-Region team
- Yonke stock on the rise
- EHS volleyball coach Nehls resigns
- Kessler, Wheeler bidding to climb in State diving
- USD 251 Board of Education
- About Town
- The Savior is enough
- Roaring Back: Kansas gains Jobs
Thursday, May 20
- Sports Shorts
- 11 Hornets headed to Nationals
- Campbell named Region POY
- ‘A Shot at Winning’
- Congress honors Lady Hornets
- Emporia High School Class of 2010 earns scholarships
- The buzz on carpenter bees
- Showing support
- Midterm elections
- Take action sooner
- More than 300 EHS seniors set to graduate on Sunday
- Weekend events
- Trial date set in shooting death
- One-Stop Shop
- Personal fireworks will fly
- Financial Peace
- Reception for Heim
- Budget error could cost education
- Farewell to Heim
Wednesday, May 19
- Emporia ban on fireworks lifted for one-season trial
- Moran speaks on House floor to honor Lady Hornets
- Cuckoo for coconut
- EHS' Agler, Bennett qualify for state
- Spartans lose on 'tough' goal
- Emporia's season ends with regional loss to West
- Going out with a bang
- CCHS upset in regional
- Bulldogs headed to state
- Ready for rituals
- School finance hot topic
- Show & Tell
- Uproar is wrong
- Can do ourselves
- Deadline to get graduation pictures in is today
- Card shower
Tuesday, May 18
- Weekend pursuit ends in arrest
- Trailer home destroyed in fire
- Location changes, Band tryouts
- Three people transported in Turnpike accident
- ‘Touched by Fire’
- Fits the crime
- Think again
- Heights golf finishes 8th at Regional
- Wildcats lose in 3A Regional
- ESU puts 18 on All-MIAA list
- Time to Get Tough
- Reimer takes seventh at state meet
- Gearing up for camp
- Teen airlifted to Wesley
- School officials: ‘no evidence’
- Headed to Stores
- Garage sale
- Vehicle rolls over on Sixth
Monday, May 17
- Loucks’ focus beyond baseball
- Stuco honors Serrano with blood drive
- The Week Ahead
- One Busy Day
- Working on a rig
- Cost of living
- Supporting the hospital
- Stout leads madison girls at LCL track meet
- Hornet heartbreak
- Spartan freshman steps in at goalkeeper
- EHS softball team to face Topeka West
- Hornets honor fallen track star at meet
- Reimer hopes to build on comeback in 5A tennis
- About Town
- Quilt show luncheon draws admirers
- Community News
- Home destroyed in fire
Sunday, May 16
Saturday, May 15
- ‘A matter of time’
- Housing decay hurts all of us
- Menus
- Business briefs
- Veteran enjoys fast tour
- ESU graduates take the stage
- Sophomore wins Renaissance car
- Rain makes grain — and flowers
- Outhouse lore
- Hughes' homer wins it for ESU
- Hornets' season comes to end
- Reimer makes tough comeback
- Riding on the bubble
- Spartans finish 3rd at League
- Lady Hornets bounce back, get rematch with Rambelles
Friday, May 14
- ESU baseball eliminated from Regional
- ESU commencement moved indoors
- Coburn's expands menu
- Two Spartans place at league dive meet
- EHS shuts out Topeka High
- EHS boys second, girls fifth in league track
- EHS golf third at home meet
- Off Balance
- Lehrer novel has Emporia ties
- News Briefs
- 2nd Braum’s to open in late July
- ESU graduates Saturday
- Weekend Plans
- Coming Home
- Pats on the Back
- Friday Thoughts
- Crime of the Week
- About Town
- On fire for solar energy
- EHS' Renaissance Program gives away car
- EHS students excel in financial challenge
- Students qualify for recognition
- Kiwanis Club of Emporia donates books to school libraries
- Lyon Co. in good cash position
- Doing the splits
- Emporia State loses to Incarnate Word, 6-1
Thursday, May 13
- ESU baseball start time pushed back to 9 p.m.
- EHS hires Beau Welch as boys coach
- Reimer has found the right mindset
- L-CAT to expand routes, services
- Successful after-prom
- We saw what you did
- Days in deserts
- Good Causes
- Sports shorts
- CCHS softball team draws Oxford
- Remembering the Fallen
- Commissions work on agreements
- Verizon dealer to open in lofts
- Board hears allegation of threats
- Campaign, coffee, and questions
- Walk-on wonder
- Welch named EHS boys basketball coach
- Lyon County Commission
Wednesday, May 12
- Cancellations
- Confident Hosey locked in
- Second generator not needed
- Beef marinades
- Tour a success
- Fire victim identified
- Fire station open house Saturday
- Police identify businessman
- Minor injuries to driver; vehicles towed from wreck
- Baffling the Blues
- Spartans swept at Rural
- Fancy-Schmancy finger sandwiches
- In a good position
- Home improvement
- Mother’s Day delivery
- Honoring a Friend
- Legislature ends session
- Hazardous Weather Outlook
Tuesday, May 11
- But my child’s not sick ...
- Glass half-empty or half-full?
- Volunteer today
- Dog obedience class, Hunting banquet
- Bulldogs sweep Heights
- Basketball players named academic All-State
- EHS golf, soccer postponed
- A Difficult Road
- Power Plant program growing
- Reaching Out
- Up to 100
- YTP auditions
- Quaffing coffee
- Fire fatal to 94-year-old
Monday, May 10
- Sports cancellations
- Name released
- Obama Chooses Kagen for Court
- Construction on schedule at water treatment plant
- Auditions
- Club News
- Bulldogs take two from Wildcats
- Master of the air
- Frazier earns highest Rotary award
- Hornets capture six MIAA titles
- Memorial ceremony
- Transplant fundraisers
- 4-H News
- Reimer finishes 2nd at Regional
- Krause gives EHS senior day win
- Seventh Heaven
- Hornets can’t finish central
- Hazardous Weather Outlook
Sunday, May 9
Saturday, May 8
- ESU baseball beats Central Missouri 7-3, advances to championship game
- ESU softball wins 7th straight MIAA tournament
- Thoughts of Scottie
- Bullying on board agenda Wednesday
- Pooch Apalooza is next weekend
- A Place to Rest
- A tradition
- Flint Hills Digest
- Agendas
- Christian bookstore open for business
- About Town
- Menus
- Briefcase
- Building Permits
- Now Open
- Eternal hope
- Spartans lose opener of EHS baseball classic
- Home run heroics lift ESU
- Francis keys tourney win
Friday, May 7
- ESU softball beats UNO, 4-2
- Remain vigilant
- Annual ritual
- Pats on the Back
- Turner Gill will speak here May 27
- National Hospital Week activities planned
- Arts Center Construction Update
- Commissioners approve stop sign placement
- Neosho Rapids City Council Meeting, Toledo Township Alumni Banquet
- Spartans battle to tie with Hayden
- Campbell named MIAA POY
- Good Enough
- Hornets strong in the circle
- FHTC gets grant
- God wants to direct our paths
- Dignified advice for brides
- Arts Notes
Thursday, May 6
- ESU baseball, softball teams win MIAA tourney openers
- Summer lawn care
- Thanks for the support
- The Forgotten Man
- Prayer as threat?
- Kidney donor to wait tables at Coach’s fundraiser
- Traveling 100 miles without going anywhere
- Petting zoo held at fairgrounds
- Basket of babies
- Water main project begins with bid award
- City of Emporia’s new website
- Added to declaration
- School Baker to receive award
- Fundraiser, Rummage sale, Literacy help, Food drive, Poker time
- Anti-Drug Run set for Friday
- Sports Shorts
- Heights sweeps Herington in double dip
- Spartans finish 3rd at MHS
- 3 Hornets named to 1st Team
- 'A True Hornet'
Wednesday, May 5
- Business owners tap new market
- Cinco for Cinco De Mayo
- A success
- Missed the point
- Going boom
- Free Screenings
- Graham, Boston earn senior honors
- Olpe boys win Madison meet; girls 2nd
- Spartans lose 10th in a row
- EHS gets back to winning
- Beating the Pros
- ESU sweeps, earns share of title
- Justice to speak at drug court
- opinion sought on U.S. 50 passing lanes
- Walking out
- Hopkins family hands out awards with poignant remembrance
Tuesday, May 4
- Blooming flowers
- The Elkhart express
- Time for districts
- Hopkins awards continue
- EHS tennis team finishes 7th at league
- Lady Blue Lindy
- Saalfeld finishes 2nd in decathlon
- The lazy days of summer?
- Keeping summer safe - and fun
- Toddler succumbs to stroke
- Hooked on health
- Go to a pro for lawn-care tips
- About Town - News from around town
Monday, May 3
- Stroke overcomes toddler
- Party Line
- Commuity News
- 4-H News
- With appreciation
- Sports Briefs
- Five Hornets earn titles
- Hornets get homer-happy in finale
- Young inventors show ingenuity
- LeClear wins first at state
- About Town
- Midwest economy
- Palin in Wichita
- Benefit concert planned
- University receives 2 large gifts
- High Energy
- Passing lane focus groups to be held
- LeClear best at state
Saturday, May 1
- Menus
- Crime of the Week
- Flint Hills Digest
- New restaurant to celebrate cinco de mayo with ribbon cutting
- 2010 honor graduates named
- New Early Childhood Coordinator
- Windfall for accounting, PE students
- Tiahrt's wife among speakers here
- Forensics team competes today
- Business Briefs
- Twin rivers festival planning begins
- Our side
- Committee funds 3rd project
- Turning Point team competing in National Math Bee
- Friends reach out to help family of dying toddler
- Expand your business
- EHS loses at Shawnee Heights
- Spartan track squads both finish fourth at Seaman
- Emporia loses two to Manhattan
- Hornets swept at Hays
- Dobler wins it for ESU
- Senior night blues for EHS