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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

• ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’

• Mennonite Heritage Museum

• Health Agenda

• ‘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?

• Rights of man

• ‘Grace in Action’ is set next week

• Friday thoughts

• County approves reallocation for cook site

• 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

• EHS swimmers show potential at 1st meet

• Bank plans Emporia branch

• 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

• Go for the grains

• ESU weekend baseball series moved back

• 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

• Congress on the boil

• Business has new name

• 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

• Lyon County student takes fourth in regional spelling bee

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

• Strawberries for the Home Garden

• Install an Electric Outlet

• Here is some guidance for turbulent markets

• City, county Commissions discuss consolidating dispatch services

• Zoning approved for new rock quarry

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

• Health Agenda

• New rules for immunizations

• 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

• ESU women make NCAA tournament

• Washburn beats ESU in MIAA championship

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

• Flint Hills Beef Fest results released

• New lawyer on duty

• Meet a Gazette Mom

• New construction

• 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

• County Commission will buy a truck for FEMA trailer

• Students get time off this month

• Students begin testings to determine AYP results

• Kindergarten orientation set in April

• Happiness is more than a warm puppy

• Mystery comedy

• Pats on the Back

• Hutchinson man pleads guilty in airport robbery

• Men accused in 2 attacks on women

• Burglary of vehicle at high school

• Andrew Jackson's legacy remembered

• Has his reservations

• 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

• To the parents of Hunter and Terra

• Prisoner fights handcuffs

• 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

• Horsin' Around

• Obama’s plans lack details

• The People Speak

Sunday, March 1

• Quail Unlimited banquet is Tuesday

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