Story archive for August 2009
Monday, Aug. 31
- Trial begins in Rachel Hall death
- New Wing Man
- Extension district topic of meeting
- Addiction recovery celebrated
- Online chat
- DONATE NOW
- Volunteers work to clean downtown
- Events raise $250K for Bowyer 79 Fund
- Aye Family Reunion
- Heights Class of ’59 Reunion
- Senior Calendar
- Community News
- Club Agenda
- Yards, homeowners honored by gardeners
- Sorting through the financial professionals’ alphabet soup
- Cost of cash
- One last time
- Stop and listen
- Schwan’s driver injured in 1-vehicle accident
- Girl Scout campout
- Hornets sweep at UNO Showcase
- Americus News
Sunday, Aug. 30
Saturday, Aug. 29
- Spartans share the wealth
- Hornets dominate Day 1 of tourney
- Lady Hornets get first verbal
- ESU soccer team drops opener
- Spartans upbeat after scrimmage
- Building permits
- Accreditation
- Newman Auxiliary donates to Greensburg’s hospital
- City’s Salary scale is extensive
- The Girls of Summer
- Chase County
- Eureka
- Madison
- Burlington
- Open house at Sterling House
- Meet a Gazette Mom: Beth Hayes-Jackson
- Call it H1N1
- Emphasizing the ability in disability
- Gratitude
- University admissions
Friday, Aug. 28
- Gala dinner to help lemurs
- Main Street collects for care package
- Grant challenges EAC
- Clothing giveaway
- Child safety
- Protect & Serve
- Hornet crowd makes it special
- Higgins: Page isn’t hornets’ only weapon
- Hornets run up a storm
- Jazz workshop
- Beatles tribute
- Walnut Valley
- Young Thespian production
- Community symphony
- Exhibits
- Poster contest
- Concerts
- Quilt display
- Book on cuisine has roots in the 1930s
- Center for Great Plains Studies publishes 1862 diaries
- CG man injured in early-morning accident
- Will the stained glass be broken?
- No tea and roses
- Pats on the Back
- Council Grove man injured in early morning wreck
Thursday, Aug. 27
- Hornets beat SWOSU in opener
- Arts Council receives fundraising challenge
- Important test
- Recruitment showing progress at Newman
- Water, trash rate increases may not be offset
- Plenty of consent on county agenda
- Another month for energy decisions
- Food pantry needs stock
- Butter Braids for uniforms
- Moran: Health plan should be bipartisan
- Free sports injury clinics; 5K Run/Walk
- Boot block
- Prepare for Christmas Parade
- The importance of ’Dre
- Senior spellers crowned
Wednesday, Aug. 26
- School board will study energy-saving options
- Utility rates to increase
- A travesty
- Deserves recognition
- SW Okla. provides early test for Hornets
- Emporia loses 6A State basketball tournaments
- Health center revenue down
- Start the day off right
- Colorful Carrots
- Stone fences
- Open house
- Buy vehicle tags
- Wandering snake
- Stabbing victim treated and released at Topeka
- New hours
- Get booth spaces now for annual market
- Ultimatum
- Help Clint's Cause
- Commissioners meet for study session
- Path to Excellence
Tuesday, Aug. 25
- Bowyer does it again
- Time to act
- A good start, a great day
- Tough consequences
- Lots of open spots to fill
- EHS golf team earns medal
- Final Hours
- Weather hurts corn yield
- Order tickets now
- Ice cream social
- Bowyer fundraiser
- Continued Improvement
- Health center's parking lot to be repaved
- Card shower
- St. Mary’s reunion
- Smile and a wave
Monday, Aug. 24
- Keep inflation in mind when investing
- Riverside
- Club News
- Americus News
- School board meets Wednesday
- Vet signs could go up in fall
- Flu precautions
- $3,500 raised
- Man vs. Food
- Zoo has a Happy Birthday
- ESU sees few serious cases of alcohol abuse
- Central Kansas District similar to Lyon-Chase proposal
- Politics may kill cap and trade bill
- Working it out
- EHS looks to make next step
- Contact takes Bowyer out of race
- Chat with Coach Garin Higgins
Sunday, Aug. 23
Saturday, Aug. 22
- Special revenue funds
- Talk to kids
- New products introduced to home- business sector
- EHS wants another state trip
- Receivers have speed to spare
- Green fields
- Flint Hills Digest
- Girl Scout and Boy Scout reps to visit area
- Menus
- Conservation program offered
- Prosecution rates hold steady
- European Tour
- State voids ESU banking contract
- Gazette Mom
- Attends meeting
- Ribbon cutting
- Service award
- Building Permits
Friday, Aug. 21
- Dinner for Bowyer fund
- Officers on the lookout for drunk drivers
- Extension district would allow offices to share resources
- Hornets debut at No. 3 in volleyball poll
- More weapons in the backfield
- New coach has familiarity with Spartans
- Pool open
- Coming Soon
- Softball tournament to help cancer patient
- ESU athletics holding autograph day on Saturday
- Friday Thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- New urologist here Sept. 2
- baptism vital part of saving faith
- Walnut Valley
- Young Thespian production
- Beatles tribute
- Exhibit
- Community symphony
- Dualities of words and belief
- Visiting artist explores idea of belonging
- Mimicking Nature’s Wisdom
- School supply donations pour in at start of new year
- Anderson returns to Emporia district
- Clint Bowyer comes through with more donations
Thursday, Aug. 20
- ESU seeks nominations
- City approves ambulance agreement
- Chase Co. arrest leads to immigration charges
- Extension wants to combine Lyon, Chase counties' services
- Work moving to Ohio
- June Bug benefit softball tournament; 5K Run/Walk
- Super-sizing the O-line
- Gymnasts hoping summer pays off
- Hornets’ Page shows what he can do
- RCIL meeting; NAMI meeting
- Ice cream social
- No garage needed for this sale
- Earlier education
- Invasion of privacy
- The People Speak - Online
- Riding trains is great
Wednesday, Aug. 19
- Detroit Diesel to cut 75 jobs
- Chase Co. plans Labor Day festival
- Speak now
- Good plan
- Ice Cream
- Lane: student recruitment key
- Recreation commission cuts costs
- Computer coupons banned
- Sandoval doing superbly
- Here’s Your Hasenpfeffer
- New coach benefits young DBs
- Cornejo optimistic despite loss of departing senior stars
Tuesday, Aug. 18
- Heermann, Mann work to improve hospital
- Rust interrupts mail service
- Building proposal draws fire
- Zoo Turns 75
- Downed tree disrupts family
- Hornets scrimmage without Miller
- Linebackers bring more size, speed
- Spartans shake off sluggishness on day 1
- Health Agenda
- Keeping kids healthy & fit
- Greedy for profits
- Still waiting
- Along the Military Byway
- Work on US 50
Monday, Aug. 17
- Entries open for senior spelling bee
- Building Permits
- Do your homework
- White Rose Inn remains for sale
- Should he list on eBay?
- Alcohol education
- Students return to Block Party
- Cattle, Cowboys, Kids
- Newman Takes over running ER
- McAnarney makes hole-in-one
- Less rest, better production?
- Leave no man behind
- Taxing bonuses
- Corporate Challenge 2009
- Happy Harvesters
- "Symbolic walk up the hill”
- Shakespeare
- Kaniper family
Saturday, Aug. 15
- Sharing their passion
- Ways of the Rays
- Meet a Gazette Mom: Heather Lake
- The Faithful Runner
- Hornets earn academic awards
- In the preseason, everyone’s a champion
- ESU volleyball holding scrimmage on Monday
- Undemocratic tactics
- SATURDAY: Walk to raise funds for ALS
- ESU Science gets federal grant
- Restaurant investigation names cause of illness
- After hours
- New goals for Main Street
- Emporia Symphony Orchestra to be reinstated, holding auditions
- 40 Years Strong
- Menus
- Cottonwood Falls
Friday, Aug. 14
- Trooper bound over for trial
- Bronson ends football career
- Taking it one game at time
- This Week
- Tech college hits enrollment record
- Google Teacher
- Moran opens Beef Fest
- Grant applications
- Solar cooking
- ALS walk
- FHTC employees honored for years of service
- Exhibit
- Appraisals
- History
- Band concert
- In concert
- License plate designs
- Walnut Valley
- Jazz workshop
- Author continues Oz story
- Family hosts party for Edmiston
- A Key to Change: New Friends
- Pats on the Back
- Friday Thoughts
Thursday, Aug. 13
- Spotlight aimed wrong
- H1N1 flu could be milder than expected
- Black Hills takes over as Neosho Rapids gas supplier
- Commission to Zimmerman: find other savings, if necessary
- ESU works with tighter budget
- Volunteer accused of theft
- Good news for propane users this winter
- Hospital outlines strategic plan steps
- Board aproves 2009-10 budget
- Medical office zoning request withdrawn
- Daughter coaxes mom into winning $10,000
- ‘Garageless’ garage sale; Beth Dains Pees fundraiser
- Leading Emporia
- June Bug benefit softball tournament; Twilight 5,000
- Hornets are motivated and in shape
Wednesday, Aug. 12
- Board approves budget, plans ahead for energy funding
- Sanchez charged in wrestling club case
- Dog obedience classes planned
- Community health center celebrated
- Vet sign project close to complete
- Boosting the building fund
- Scharenberg card shower
- Last ice cream of summer
- North Lyon swim night
- Collision north of Lyndon kills teen
- Perspective
- Back to school
- ESU volleyball could have mass appeal
- Second-chance success
- Murphy's Menu
- Storm adds excitement to opening day
- No disaster
- Pizza for United Way
- Brief Homecoming
- REG deal needs extension
Tuesday, Aug. 11
- Emporia City Commission
- Zoning requested for med office
- Get healthy now for a better quality of life later
- Emporia could use an “it” team
- No longer the underdogs
- Hillsdale Bank Bar-B-Q
- Reward offered
- No clunker here
- Emporia Public Library board meeting
- Kansas Meteorites presentation
- Next step: Installing seats
- Focus remains on students
- Pooch Plunge
- Appraisals
- STORM SLAMS N. Lyon Co.
Monday, Aug. 10
- Vahsholtz wins battle of friends
- Lake rescues
- Cattle rustler
- Beef Fest opens Friday
- Director prepares for challenges
- Hard Hits
- Finney reunion
- Ribbon cutting
- Rockhurst grad
- Building Permits
- ABWA awards scholarship
- Lane joins The Renaissance Group board
- Work as a team to weather financial storm
- No gym memberships
- Memorable year
- Palin has acquitted herself
- Expenses fill school board’s short agenda
- Back to School Swim
- Severe weather slammed area
- Crops damaged by Monday’s storm
Saturday, Aug. 8
- Sweet success
- Recognize Brumbaugh
- Close Gitmo
- Area Menus
- Flint Hills Digest
- A Survivor and a Scholar
- New phones for Emporia schools
- ESU men 5th in coaches poll
- Stromgren still a good bet
- Graham takes top honor at fair
- Riggs earns award
- Redeker pleads no contest
- Global Ties
- Heim: Ready to return to school
Friday, Aug. 7
- Redeker pleads no contest to sex crime against minor
- Meet a Gazette Mom
- Friday thoughts
- Plans for community health center week
- County continues to whittle budget
- Kansas reports first H1N1 death
- Blight Be Gone
- Appraisals
- Band concert
- Concert
- Reading program
- Novel will remain important for years to come
- Dance party
- ESU business prof publishes ‘Only Milo’
- ESU wins recognition
- Cash for Clunkers is administrative headache
- Rough & Tumble
- Hornets picked 8th in soccer poll
- Hornet Comfort
- Young guns ready to challenge Watts
- Don’t let your faith get flabby
- Celebrating Scouting
- Strike out polio
- Diamond Anniversary
- Pats on the Back
- Come one, come all
- Quit spending
- Ludicrous situation
Thursday, Aug. 6
- ESU president joins Renaissance group
- Hornet Volleyball picked atop MIAA
- Last trip to Europe
- Better landscapes using less water
- Pesticide Effectiveness
- Emporia pluses again
- Don’t do it
- Thankful
- Changes?
- Many thanks
- Harris joins hospital group
- Being prepared
- United Methodist Church garage sale; Back to school carnival
- 2009 Emporia City Championship
- New proposal reinstates band subsidy
- School budget moves forward
- Camp canceled
- Safety seats
- Counterfeit checks
- Winding down
- Business relocates to old district building
Wednesday, Aug. 5
- School officials alone at public hearing
- Harris makes switch
- City commission continues budget work
- Zietz to be Moran's intern
- Leiss among outstanding recent graduates at ESU
- Emporia holds block parties
- Many thanks
- Targeted financial resources
- Congratulations
- Neosho Rapids council
- Ice cream social
- Surprise shower
- Bring food items
- Preserve the past
- Sheriff harvests suspect in cornfield
- Welch lands EHS baseball job
- Cash for Clunkers
- Baby supplies
- Goat show: Paying attention to details
- Jail changes visitation policies
- New Spaces
- Beef for Beef Fest
- Thank you, Pat
Tuesday, Aug. 4
- Letting go of grudges
- Americus News
- Spoiled from the start
- Let the Battle Begin
- Santa Fe Republicans
- Hornets have something to prove
- Olpe meeting rescheduled
- Touring the south
- Remembering Jo Mouse
- What’s the Matter With Kansas?
- Texting & driving
- Emporia city commission agenda
- Budget discussion & County Meeting
- Convenience store reopens
- Smaller animals
- At the fair
Monday, Aug. 3
- Hornets picked 8th in MIAA
- Blues upended in 1st title game
- Blues drop Regional title game, 6-1
- Building Permits
- Happy Harvesters
- Effects of ban
- Hospitable hosts
- Review financial strategies after life events
- At the Fair
- Main Street host for workshop
- Open affidavits
- Family Tradition
Sunday, Aug. 2
Saturday, Aug. 1
- Made an impact
- Complete agreement
- Emporia wins battle of the Blues
- Southern Spartan
- The water balance
- Flint Hills Digest
- County library meeting; Foreign Officer luncheon
- Menus
- Brightening the Corners
- Dean’s list
- Tallgrass prairie wells to be plugged
- Tractors bring memories
- Baker Boys
- Sell funding
- Meet a Gazette Mom: Gina Slayden
- Punkindoodles opening; New faces