Story archive for May 2008
Saturday, May 31
- In Search of Arms
- Consumer confidence
- So, Scott,what else is new?
- About Town
- Daily Report
- Menus
- Flint Hills Digest
- Alderman takes over Rescue Mission
- Prices lead to changed habits
- Combating Graffiti
Friday, May 30
- A Fitting End
- Outdoor Adventures
- Tech college launches fundraising
- Graduates inducted into honor society
- Summer enrollment sets record
- Sunday Sermon
- Church news
- Art Notes
- Emporian returns home with band
- Working vacation
- The people speak
- Pats on the Back
- Chat: Council director answers questions
- Lopez retires after 35 years on the force
- New Briefs
- Pain at the Pump: Part I It’s Not the First Time
Thursday, May 29
- Good causes
- About town
- Pedestrian injured; Police look for hit-and-run driver
- Hernandez tabbed player of the year by baseball writers
- The Year's Best at EHS
- It’s Jessy time!
- If I had my way
- Properly shushed
- Sports Shorts
- Debate team enjoys successful season
- Culp makes a difference at ESU
- News briefs
- City given fire station options
- Patriot guard official steps down
- Piquancy spells disaster
- Any runway in an emergency
- Family defends pit bulls
- EAC Director answers readers' questions
- Kittens pulled for adoption
Wednesday, May 28
- Policy handbooks gain initial approval
- ESU's Hernandez named D-2 Player of the Year
- Decker, Sosa take honors
- Energy U-16's win Council Grove Tournament; Chase County baseball team has 5 honored
- Commission cuts
- Gasoline pressure
- Frightened and alone
- Emporia - Lyon County Most Wanted
- Fluffy, puffy popcorn
- Files for commission
- Health Center Board ok's healthy families project
- Planners clear way for shooting range in city
- Court hires replacement for clerk
- Tech college’s Bill Hanlon takes his expertise to devastated town
- Emporia volunteers return to help rebuild Greensburg
Tuesday, May 27
- Flyover People
- Senior Calendar
- Last Ones Standing
- Club Agenda
- Final throw gives Leffler 4th straight shot put title
- Health Agenda
- Community news
- Rossbach ends career with 1st national title
- Pittsburg-Colgan wins 5th straight State title
- Lowest common denominators
- Horsin’ around
- Drive-by poachers still putting people at risk in Lyon County
- Man dies at Pomona Lake
- Americus News
- Agenda
- Police investigate robbery
- News Briefly
- The Week Ahead
- Memorial Day Ceremony honors the fallen and the Lost
- Emporia Soaked
- Officers will carry Special Olympics torch
- Iowa Chain wants into Emporia
Monday, May 26
- Rain moves Memorial Day ceremony indoors
- Man dies at Pomona State Park
- Pizza deliveryman robbed
- ESU's Jonel Rossbach wins 1st national championship
- Stormy start to Memorial Day
Saturday, May 24
- Emporia High boys win Class 5A State title
- Leffler wins 4th-straight 3A shot put title
- Five years and growing
- Business briefs
- Building permits
- All about Kansas birds
- This Side of 60
- Flint Hills calendar
- Sights on a Title
- Leffler sets 3A record in discus
- CCHS Falls to St. Marys, 9-7
- Saalfeld places 2nd in high jump; ESU women still 8th at nationals
- Because you asked
- The challenge of $4 gasoline
- About town
- Menus
- Flint Hills digest
- Tuel named interim head
- Today's Police Force
Friday, May 23
- Leffler wins 4th straight discus title
- Rossbach takes 2nd in 10,000; ESU women 1st after day 1 at nationals
- Row, Row Row your Boat
- In Her (Running) Shoes...
- EMS students turn out in force for Fun Run Against Drugs
- Free breakfasts, lunch at few schools
- Scholars honored; 25 Staff members slip out the door to retirement
- ‘Ye Must Be Born Again’
- Church news
- Studio presents ‘High School Musical 2’
- Reynolds, Childs, Kraft win State titles for EHS
- Can He Duet?
- Art Notes
- Movies for children this summer
- Successful fundraiser
- Friday Thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- Attention All drivers:Now it’s ‘Click It or Ticket’
- Aquatic Center Season Begins Saturday
- Cell Phone can save money on a trip
- Will and Walt
- The news briefly
- Fire marshal gives summer safety tips
- Commissioner Davis warns of cuts without sales tax
- Discover summer in Emporia
- Shooting for the Gold
- Menu, others settle pet food claims
- Tuel named interim director
Thursday, May 22
- Teachers college students' achievements honored
- County to set bridge-plan hearing
- Newman institutes Team-nursing model
- Playground fire
- Memorial ceremony
- Thomases give $50,000 to The Farm
- City gets report on Vegas sales trip
- Man dies at scene of fire
- Energy in the wind
- The next step at Peter Pan
- The ‘cybrid’ arguments
- Seeking a Perfect 4
- EHS track and field has high hopes for State meet in Wichita
- Chase Co. wanting more at State
- Pratt Comm. College hires ESU’s Shaw
- Sports Shorts
- In the Garden
- About town
- Good causes
Wednesday, May 21
- Sosa, Decker earn 1st-team
- Homemade tamales to fund leadership course
- Amy Jordan answers Gazette Readers’ horticultural questions
- Judge not lest thou be judged? Not!
- Ceremonies Mark Memorial Day
- State Sen. Jim Barnett seeks re-election
- Sentencing clears way for Trial in deaths
- Kids’ summer starts with a KISS
- Vicious Dogs
- Just not getting it
- Sports Briefs
- Emporia Energy U-12s take 1st place at Derby tournament
Tuesday, May 20
- Health agenda
- Second Time Around
- Davies’ story one of the best
- Northern Heights sends 4 to Class 3A meet
- About town
- Chase County golf places 5th at State
- Emporia Lyon County Most Wanted
- Vopat on ballot
- Teresa Walters running for county commission
- Emporians selling city in Las Vegas
- Emporian on panel reviewing casino proposals
- The Americus book
- Start thinking about Plan B
- Buck Fund honored
- A bounty of bikes
- Community news
- Flyover people
- Online Chat about gardening
Monday, May 19
- Send us your graduation photos
- A Foul Ending
- ESU baseball ends season with 17-14 loss to UNO
- ESU softball team earns GPA award
- Senior calendar
- Club agenda
- Horticulture chat
- Memorial Day services
- The Week Ahead
- Kenyon Hall awaits State tax credits
- A winning chef
- Be a volunteer
- Playground thanks
- Horsin' around
- Crime on the frontier
- Americus News
Sunday, May 18
Saturday, May 17
- Nebraska-Omaha 17, Emporia State 14, FINAL
- Humboldt State 1, Emporia State 0, FINAL
- Area Menus
- Flint Hills Digest
- 'We Got This'
- Emporia State stays alive with pair of victories on Friday
- Hornets win error-filled slugfest over Wayne State, 13-8
- Fry qualifies for 2nd day of dives at State
- Bumpy streets
- Cinco de Mayo
- Old friends disappearing
- Sandoval pursues his own dream
- Because you Asked
- Bank seeks ‘tightwads’
- Helicopter painting project to be modified
- Facing the future
Friday, May 16
- ESU baseball wins, moves into semis
- ESU softball defeats St. Edward's, moves to Saturday's play
- FHTC Foundation holds recognition dinner
- Business students win awards
- Const. Tech scholarship established
- House almost finished
- Director answers questions about Community Health Center
- Friday thoughts
- Pats on the back
- ‘The word’
- ESU softball defeats Francis Marion, 1-0
- Chase County baseball to face St. Marys
- What to do?
- Central Mo. takes 7-4 victory over Wayne State
- About town
- Honors, scholarships announced
- EHS seniors prepare for graduation
- Sunday sermon
- Church news
- Arts notes
- ‘New York quality’
- Drug court recognizes 7 clean and sober graduates
- Sales Tax will go on ballot
- For this ESU grad, Saturday’s walk only the beginning
- National Speller
- University names Provost
- Big in the Clutch
- Humboldt State blanks Emporia State, 3-0
Thursday, May 15
- Wolf Creek meeting
- City asked to increase number of paramedics
- Wolf Creek returns to service
- Spanish-language GED plan sparks debate
- Study suggests logjam solutions
- Learning environment
- About town
- Good causes
- Graduation honors
- New scholarship announced
- You make a difference award
- Hornets open with a win
- Shawnee Heights’ big 1st inning sinks EHS softball team
- 12 Emporia High athletes ready for trip to State
- Sports Shorts
- Keep the conversation civil
- If I had my way
- Clinton’s determination
- Sales tax proposal passes
Wednesday, May 14
- Spanish-language diploma in limbo
- A good place
- Newman gets it right
- Think about the sales tax now
- About Town
- Super soy!
- Education program can start at birth
- Credit union is building new branch
- Group gives Braille flag to ex-teacher
- The News Briefly
- Lucky Scholars
- Mallon gets preservation award
- More than a small sacrifice
- Chase County rolls through Regionals to earn State berth
- McPherson hands EHS girls soccer 1-0 loss
- EHS falls to Hays, 8-4, at Regionals
- Chase County softball falls in Regionals
- 6 Hornets earn All-Region honors
Tuesday, May 13
- Win in the Wind
- EHS cruises past Salina South, 3-0
- Hornets to open Regional on Thursday
- 10 Hornets named to All-MIAA squad
- Energy U-12s take 2nd at Winfield tourney
- Flyover People - Opening Day
- Community News
- Health Agenda
- Stigma
- Perfection at last
- Unnatural cruelty
- Help needed for kids' games & clean-up
- Emporia's Most Wanted
- School board agenda
- New director at Granada
- Foundation sees potential in bequests
- Tech college wants to train dispatchers
- Because you Asked
- City may have jumped gun on cleanup threat
- Doctor talks about why he left
- Video: The Kristi Bredbenner Show
Monday, May 12
- The week ahead
- Granada Theatre’s history featured at museum event
- Emporia infant battling leukemia
- Fine day for a festival
- Naked, nekkid and nude
- Thanks for help
- Club agenda
- Community news
- On To Houston!
- Hornets fall to Mules in MIAA Tourney title game
- ESU athletes improve standings in final regular-season meet
- Reimer places 7th; Heavener, Roman 8th
- About town
Sunday, May 11
- Emporia State softball team headed to College World Series
- Hornets fall in MIAA Tournament title game
Saturday, May 10
- ESU softball team defeats Winona State, 2-0, to advance to Regional Championship
- What Goes Around ...
- Hornets rally for 6-5 victory over Fort Hays
- Reimer, Heavener, Roman all advance
- Childs, Davies each win pair of League titles
- ROUNDUP: Winona State blasts its way to 8-1 victory over SMSU
- 4 Hornets named Academic All-District
- ESU women’s tennis team falls to NW Missouri, 5-2
- Chase County baseball wins 2 more; CCHS softball splits with Herington
- Emporia High girls swimming and diving team places 2nd at league
- Ethel Cade plans to celebrate Class of 1928
- Threat locks down school
- Emporia teacher moves to Americus administration
- ‘Neuter scooter’ program launched
- Bathrooms will be stocked at EHS
- Man charged in fatal accident remains in jail
- 4-H project preparations well underway
- Health center officials comment
- What have we learned?
- Torres guides new partner through life’s obstacles
- Flint Hills Digest
- Menus
- About Town
- The Daily Report
Friday, May 9
- 1st-Round Drama
- Lyndon's Niemack takes 4 titles at LCL Championships
- Roundup: Nebraska-Omaha takes down Minnesota State-Mankato, 1-0
- Leffler's big day leads Heights girls at league meet
- My Brad Paisley Moment
- 3 EHS divers place in top 5 at league
- ESU women’s tennis advances at Regionals
- 2 ESU softball players named All-Region
- LSIS kids raise record sum
- Bonnet claims state speech championship
- Toy Shoppe moves
- Westar joins in YouthFriends
- Tech students bring home honors
- Sheldon wins runner-up or Educator of the Year
- Faith News
- Arts notes
- Mexico City pianist, students celebrate Cinco De Mayo
- Emporia state presents its 54th summer theatre season
- Friday thoughts
- Pats on the back
- About town
- Burglaries being investigated
- The News Briefly
- End of the legislative session
- Shooting case headed to trial
- Soil lessons
- Downtown bed and breakfast up for sale
- NCAA Regional softball games moved back 2 hours
Thursday, May 8
- Good causes
- 5 ESU women’s tennis players named All-MIAA
- Bowyer takes 5th in racing event at Lakeside in K.C.
- Sports shorts
- Stout makes a difference
- Graduation planned
- MASTER IT! program explores math, science
- English prof wins award
- A Shot at State
- EHS soccer uses balanced scoring to take 3-1 victory
- ESU softball moved to today
- Go, team!
- Abortion and cancer
- This stamp is forever
- In the Garden
- ‘Zumbathon’ Raises $8,000
- City commissioners tired of waiting for cleanup at Pallets Plus
- Graphic design show
- Post audit says Farm following the rules
- Hobby, frame shops moving in together
- Quality of care is constant focus
- The Doctors and the Hospital: Part III
- Eichorn will run again
- Early morning fire guts house
Wednesday, May 7
- 1st day of NCAA Softball Regionals postponed
- Mother's day recipes from Connie Fairbanks
- Served on board
- A modest proposal for that stimulus check
- High-quality education essential to community prosperity
- Surprise for the teachers
- Guild members create Bowyer quilt to raise funds
- A day for a different kind of driver
- EHS softball sweeps Lady Scots, runs streak to 4 games
- Jury convicts slayer in Bonner Springs case
- Hornets aim for World Series bid
- ESU tennis squads ready for Regionals
- The News Briefly
- Crash kills Emporian
- Kids regular visitors at the Manor
- Why have doctors left Emporia?
- Newman must do balancing act
Tuesday, May 6
- Wishing For More
- EHS baseball takes 1st sweep
- EHS soccer falls to Blue Valley
- Chase County baseball team improves to 15-1
- Flyover People
- Health Agenda
- Allergy Answers
- A banker speaks
- The last days of the Legislature
- Saving the horses
- About Town
- Emporia - Lyon County Most Wanted
- Retired Emporia physicians comment on hospital, past and present
- The News Briefly
- Event will raise money for travel for medical care
- Nuke plant refueling is behind schedule
- Doctors, hospital officials meet
Monday, May 5
- Senior calendar
- Community news
- Club agenda
- Perfect Ending
- Bowyer: Victory at Richmond ‘definitely wasn’t expected’
- Williamson hits walkoff single to lift ESU past Washburn
- Rossbach wins 4 titles at MIAA Championships
- Dog attack
- Carriers to collect food
- Peggy Mast will run for re-election
- Hopkins awards due soon
- Municipal Band only halfway to a full season
- Playground open!
- Horsin' around
- Only information
- Is this some city or what?
- Americus News
- Truck driver injured in accident
- Cyclone death toll nears 4,000 in Myanmar, media reports
Saturday, May 3
- Bowyer wins in Richmond
- Emporia State softball wins MIAA Tourney title
- Passing it on
- Flint Hills Calendar
- New novel reveals the lost years of 'A man of contrasts'
- Building permits
- Waiting Her Turn
- Hornets use long ball to dispatch of Washburn, 15-11
- EHS softball earns 1st victories of the year
- Chase County softball swept by Inman
- EHS track and field has 7 top-5 finishes at Shawnee Mission North Relays
- Spartan baseball loses pair of games
- Menus
- Flint Hills digest
- Because you asked
- Honor Flight
- Hot campaign here at home
- Bowyer’s Charity Golf
Friday, May 2
- 'Our Home Turf'
- EHS girls soccer sneaks past Hayden, 1-0
- ESU track looks for more success at MIAAs
- EHS tennis qualifies 5 for state
- Emporia High takes 5th at Junction City Invite
- Box of Chocolates
- Business & Industry Center offers new courses
- Flint Hills Technical College Briefs
- Kid's college offers career exploration
- Students honored by Rotary Club
- Arts notes
- Tour time
- Just four things
- Faith News
- Friday thoughts
- Pats on the back
- County moves toward 1-percent sales tax
- Atty. General warns against compromising constitution
- Warns against compromising constitution
- High School assembly on drunken driving requires sign-up, excludes some students
- New Chinese restaurant will open
- Storm Photos Wanted
Thursday, May 1
- ESU, schools offer career exploration for 5th, 6th grades
- University recognizes employee service
- If I had My Way
- Hospital board has its say
- Obama’s albatross
- 3 Hornets pick up weekly MIAA honors
- Sports Shorts
- Olpe track and field squad competes at Madison Invitational
- EHS softball team drops pair of 8-0 games to Manhattan
- Larson qualifies for State in 500 free
- Home sweet home: ESU softball team gets bid to host Regional
- Emporia High chooses volleyball coach
- Goals in Mind
- City commissioners consider raising court costs
- Sales Tax may be on county’s August Ballot
- Three new principals are named
- Board considers art work for county courthouse
- Good causes
- On the Leno show
- Emporian indicted
- Emporians head for Greensburg
- 50 Years of tasty food
- Interstate gets more time, money