Story archive for May 2009
Saturday, May 30
- EHS's Kolmer wins girls State triple jump
- One run short
- Community comes together to Celebrate Emporia
- A crazy, unlikely ride
- Pearson again places in top 5
- Chase County suffers first-round defeat
- Osage City eliminated
- Hornet families offer support
- Never Forget
- Family tradition ends after seven decades-plus
- Henderson runs to 3,200 crown
- Hornets headed home Sunday
- Counting the flu cases
- Counting the flu cases
- Food growers’ group moves forward
- Rat Rods, Quilts, Crafts
- State track
- Flint Hills Digest
- Menus
- Card shower Tuesday
- Inmate creates fracas at jail
- Three injured in rollover accident
- Hornet Watch Party
Friday, May 29
- ESU watch parties scheduled across the state
- Hornets silent about timeout controversy
- Gentz jumps his best at right time
- Victory lane
- Pioneer Bluffs
- Music & Movie
- Brown Bag
- Sundays on the Porch
- Museum program
- Biography removes glamour from legend of Bonnie & Clyde
- Vets Lend medical equipment
- First ‘Smokestock’ to provide barbecue fun for all
- Bandstand Spruced Up
- Bless that bike
- Battle of the Bands
- Hope in God
- Emporia - Lyon County Most Wanted
- Pats on the Back
- Toleration
Thursday, May 28
- Lane sends Hornets into National Championship game
- Rain delays ESU game
- Dog Wash; Money for Basketball Team
- Energy U-16 finishes 4th at Council Grove
- Schmidt, Smith medal at State tournaments
- Another shot for Chase County
- King is young and poised
- Plan cutting hospital labor costs
- City will seek stabilization grant
- Firewood Campaign
- Economy, flu affecting Americans’ travel plans
- Torch Run next week in Emporia
- Celebrate Emporia
- Flying off the shelves
- Concert tonight
- Safe Routes to School
Wednesday, May 27
- QUEST gets a reprieve
- The good-one grill certainly is
- Seniors end careers at state
- White finds a bigger role
- Camping costs
- Two hurt in rollover
- New Wendy's still planned, but no one knows when
- Health Center will retain project teen
- Accident kills Emporian
- Arts council is nearing fundraising goal
- Library activities
- KDHE to help pay for dump site cleanup
Tuesday, May 26
- Two life-flighted to Wesley
- Do you believe in miracles? The Hornets do
- Schmitz finishes 13th at State
- Chase County draws Colgan
- Philips excels for ESU in final meet
- Two wins from a title
- Grandma’s flowers
- Back to nature
- Bring trains back
- Eyes wide open
- Health Agenda
- The importance of summer workouts for young athletes
- Hunt for Hunger going after fish next month
- Celebrate Emporia Saturday
- Gold Star search
- ESU earns two grants
Monday, May 25
Sunday, May 24
Saturday, May 23
- Killian, White lead Hornets to victory in WS opener
- Off to State
- Schmitz makes it to 2nd day State Dive
- Williams makes 200-meter finals
- EHS golfers beat the odds
- Spartan volleyball team gets new coach
- Killian has the right stuff
- Emporia’s retiring teachers, staff honored
- Kari Hess
- Stand up, fight back!
- One day for memory
- Northern Heights students place at Envirothon
- Ambitious Plan for Ministry
- Follow student travels on blog
Friday, May 22
- New face at Chase County Chamber
- Consumers drive farming; industrialization is an issue
- FHTC program will offer new scholarship
- Community Connections
- Tech college holds annual recognition dinner
- Arts Notes
- ESU prepares for Summer Theatre
- Home Cooking
- Groups organize for disaster response
- Leader of a Happy Family
- M’Kenna’s Condition
- Hornet relay team lowers school record again
- Health Center closed
- Lyon County included
- Church News
- Reading High School Alumni Banquet
- Non-Debate Between Godless Humanists and Religious Kooks
- Pats on the Back
- 4 - H News
Thursday, May 21
- Silver Lake run-rules Braves in Regional
- Lessons from 2006
- Honeycutt out to prove his jump legit
- County says ‘Click It or Ticket’
- Agencies make budget requests to Lyon County Commission
- S&S, Shepherd family honored with national award
- Flinthills Mall opens its own food shop
- Bowyer gives more gifts to community
- New library hours
- Crime of the Week
- Breakfast supper
- Americus Township Library
- RCIL Friends meeting, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- ‘KISS’ Fair Today
- Retail development
Wednesday, May 20
- City commissioners approve purchase of new warning sirens
- Summer at the library
- Emporia schools offer summer meals
- Murphy's Menu - Regina Murphy
- Darfur needs help
- Hold on to your hopes
- Emergency teams practice for accidents
- Senior Olympics
- Tech college graduation
- Bulldogs make it back to state
- Spartans get no-hit, knocked out at Regionals
- Spartans unravel after Baker HR
- Spartans lose Nuessen, fall to Salina Central
Tuesday, May 19
- Online Chat - Ask your garden or horticulture questions
- Hit the hills for fun & adventure
- Agenda
- County sets study session Wednesday
- Student teacher facing charges
- Couple Will open children’s store
- Farewell, Uncle Sam
- What are the sign rules?
- Murphy’s Mercantile
- Watchful once more
- Carr sets strikeout record in Council Grove 1st round win
- Spartan girls finish 3rd at league meet
- Spartans show no mercy
- Spartans sending 3 golfers to state
- Spartan swimmers finish 3rd at league
- World Series bound
- Board meeting
Monday, May 18
- Hornets win Regional tournament
- The postal ‘service’
- Challenges in hard times
- Car show draws 130 vehicles for display
- Main Street is reserving sale booths
- Transplant fails for ex-Emporian
- Sewing class makes sushi, too
- Olpe, Madison take LCL titles
- Reimer, Roman go 0-2 at State
- Spartans draw Shawnee Heights
- Hornets survive drama, earn regional title game berth
Sunday, May 17
- Emporia State beats Angelo State to advance to regional final
- Mules rally to beat Hornets at Regional
- Plots sell out at garden
Saturday, May 16
- Hornets continue to crush at Regional tournament
- Teach your children well
- EHS seniors tally $350,000 worth
- Graduation pics
- EHS volleyball camp coming up
- ESU baseball EHS events postponed
- Charbonneau ready for new challenge
- Spartan baseball a pleasant surprise
- Meet a Gazette mom
- Megredy pleads to 2 misdemeanors
- Tebbetts dies of cancer Friday
- Making Progress
- Menus
- Crime Stoppers Tip
- The governor’s lieutenant
- Thanks for the lift
- Building Permits
- Briefcase
Friday, May 15
- ESU baseball game postponed
- County withdraws from HUD stabilization program
- EHS Seniors Ready to Receive Diplomas
- Kansas reports 34 flu cases
- Osage earns No. 2 regional seed
- Officers receive awards for valor
- Americus alumni
- EHS divers place in top five at league
- Athletic trainers
- Emporia High swept in regular-season finale
- Burris' goal enough for win
- Madison’s animal officer nominated for award
- Hornets unleash catch-23
- Business based on love of people, food
- Thornburgh: Politicians need to work with and for people
- EHS hires wrestling coach
- The torture clowns
- Friday Thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- EAC exhibit
- Engaging first novel more than zombie tale
- Find a church home
- Church News
Thursday, May 14
- Hornets thump Angelo State in regional opener
- Sports shorts
- Bulldogs Split with Herington
- Sharp behind the plate
- EHS beats Washburn Rural in Extras
- Americus News
- Pasta in olpe, emergency garage sale
- Governor’s Scholars
- Appointed to panel, students honored
- Scale insects on pine
- City may delay repaving Commercial Street
- Boards discuss recreation agreements
- State charges Emporian with fraud
- What’s next for EHS Seniors?
- Jam blocks Neosho River
- Veterans groups to dedicate Anchor memorial on Saturday
- Planners table substation request
- School budget proposal puts QUEST on Chopping block
- How can I save money when buying a car?
- Camp Alexander sets fees, schedule
- Angel comes down so roof can go on
- A big Emporia plus
- You gotta have Hart!
- What is equality under the law?
- Senior center to get new roof
Wednesday, May 13
- Board wants to salvage QUEST program
- Substation tabled
- City commission holds off on Commercial Street project
- Much appreciated
- Downtown Beautification
- car-deer accident injures 1
- EHS 1979 class reunion
- Hornets rank 16th in basketball attendance
- Railroad executive's gift eases ESU students' financial burdens
- Hornets sending 12 to National Meet
- Pitching key to Hornets Regional run
- Wasinger headquarters
- Emporia Red finishes 3rd at home tournament
- Go for whole grains!
- Flatland cruisers car show is Saturday
- Feeding the Graduated Hordes
- Online Chat - Hospital CEO
- Classes to graduate this weekend
- Auditions for Youth Thespian production
- Remembering the fallen
- Tree causing logjam east of Hartford
- Flooding causing problems on county roads
- Place Graduation Ads Now
Tuesday, May 12
- Biodiesel plant announces proposed consolidation
- 21 Hornets make All-MIAA team
- Spartans score a big win
- Hartford hires new football, girls basketball coaches
- Health Agenda
- a colorful way to a healthier you
- Online Chat - Emporia Mayor
- Washburn program should address hospital personnel shortages
- Birch expands in Florida
- Groups honor fallen law officers
- Road closing on Wednesday
- Pair rescued from water
- S. Lyon board approves project
- ESU Nursing plans ceremony
- State aid for weighting
- Enrollment numbers up at FHTC
- Paint Horse
- Jones money sways students
- Remembering slain officers
- Addicted to ink
- Buy tickets for car
- Financial aid
Monday, May 11
- TOPS
- Completes basic
- Church to receive Brinkman award
- Heights students awarded scholarships
- An animal’s job
- Importance of truth
- Successful event
- Happy Mother’s Year
- Neosho Rapids City Council
- Relay team, Kent shine at ESU home meet
- A frustrating end to a bad day for the Spartans
- A short and troubling trip
- Hornets’ run ends at Regional
- Teachers College faculty and students honored
- Time to order Angel Food boxes
- Anti-drug run results
- Budget on agenda
- Rec commission dominates forum
- State budget includes deep cuts
- Online chats
- Zoning request for Electric box draws opposition
- School budgets get tighter
- Pink power
Sunday, May 10
- ESU baseball team makes Regional tournament
- Nebraska-Omaha ends Emporia State's softball season
- Central Missouri knocks ESU out of MIAA
- National Police Week
- Presbyterians to receive award
Saturday, May 9
- State legislators pass 2010 budget
- Rec commission is hot topic at Eggs & Issues
- Highway 99 closed
- Fixing water damage
- Knocked down in Round One
- Seizing Every Minute
- Mother’s day kudos
- The last roundup
- Flying J cuts back dining hours
- Emporia High drills Louisburg
- Gentz, Kolmer place high for EHS
- Sweep By Aquinas extends Spartans’ losing streak
- Rathke is ‘Excellent for Emporia’
- Peters’ bomb takes ESU to round 2
- 6 new flu cases in Kan.
- Stimulus funds can rebuild passenger rail infrastructure
- Thanks to all
- The GOP with illustrations
- Students learn to say no to drugs
- Road work planned
- Area Menus
- Flint Hills Digest
Friday, May 8
- RDA proposes loan changes
- Softball postponed
- Tourism week message: ‘Stay at Home’
- Morning storm causes flooding
- Road closings
- Why no automatic gauge?
- Church News
- Hope in Hard Times
- Book tells story often forgotten
- Welcome to Simon’s ‘Dinner Party’
- EAC exhibit, family history
- The last word, too soon
- Pats on the Back
- Hooked on fishing
- Braves continue hot streak
- Crumbliss named MIAA player of the year
- Spartans cannot hold onto early lead
- From Squeak to Stud
- Roman, Reimer qualify for State
- EMS dispatch program offered
- Growers needed for food network
- FHTC Briefs
- Hungry kittens
- Semi driver in hospital
- Flash flooding
Thursday, May 7
- Sunflower State Games, Catbackers golf tournament
- EHS finishes third at Manhattan
- Up to the Challenge
- Buckbee leaving Emporia
- Five reasons to be bullish about financial markets
- Garr named Officer of the Year
- Don’t give in
- One life as art
- refuge has teen jobs
- Cheerleaders, medical expenses
- Rec Commissioners talk about levy
- Tallgrass Preserve offers a weekend of birding
- Guessing necessary on County Budget
- Prescription Help
- City approves demolition permits
- Stamp Out Hunger, online chats
- Lyon County Commission
Wednesday, May 6
- Recreation commission discusses agreements, budget
- Demolition permits approved
- City commission considers new warning sirens
- Chase County comes back, sweeps two from Burlington
- Young medals at league tourney
- EHS still can't get its bats going
- Spartans take two from Chargers
- Spartans held scoreless again
- Dorsey named an assistant
- Hopkins Foundation flying squad leaves checks, smiles in its wake
- Make Mom Breakfast
- Commencement planners keep eye on flu
- Concert, auction raise $8,000
- Further state cuts alter school district budget forecast
- Emporia Energy
- Harry Hart was Emporia Treasure
- Just wondering
- Make way for the new
- Flatland Cruisers, Farmers Market
- Cleaning up, Lebo alumni banquet
Tuesday, May 5
- One last smoke
- At the Tallgrass preserve
- Thanks from SOS
- Not so bad — so far
- EHS Will recognize honor graduates for 2009
- Osage City police arrest two in burglary
- Middle school fun run set for Friday
- Wrong day
- forensics: EHS team finishes Strong
- New Chevy Camaro to debut in Emporia Wednesday
- A Month on Main Street
- A Day of Honors
- EHS tennis team finishes seventh at League
- Difficult to stomach
- Emporia - Lyon County most wanted
- Extra Toad Hollow Days
- Debit cards speed payment of child support
Monday, May 4
- Water district to meet
- The Week Ahead
- Blaufuss run raises $10,000 for scholars
- The Steamboat Arabia
- The end of privacy
- Council Grove cruises to sweep
- Hornets win 6 individual titles at MIAA outdoor championships
- Still the One
- Hornets get their swagger back on senior day
- ESU shortstop makes MIAA first team
- Club News
- Drawing award
- Prescription bus
- Natasha’s will re-open on Friday
- Three new flu cases reported in Kansas
- Organizers: Cinco de Mayo for everyone
- Market gets a flying start
- Pet Workshop
Sunday, May 3
Saturday, May 2
- ESU softball back in MIAA championship
- Bittersweet Champions
- Hornets in unfamiliar territory
- Spartans please coach with split against Manhattan
- Spartans get shut out again
- Manhattan shuts down EHS offense
- EHS girls finish as top 5A school at the Seaman Relays
- A good use
- Doris Redeker
- Greater Regulation
- Building Permits
- Court officers honored
- Northern Heights students collect food and cash
- County to receive $22,975 in stimulus funds
- Team to listen in Chase County school district
- Only one week left for old stamp rates
- Group is given grassroots disaster training
- Day on the Farm
- Dunlap alumni banquet
- Crime of the Week
- Flint Hills Antique Power Association marks 10 years
- Menus
- Burlington
Friday, May 1
- Braves rally to sweep Herington
- Spartans end meet in style
- Hornet men poised to make run for MIAA title
- Speech Pathologists at Newman treat many Problems, disorders
- University is prepared for flu outbreak
- Legion post closes kitchen temporarily
- Schools seeking guidance on stimulus
- New Mayor looks at the State of the city
- County will follow up on derelict-housing plan
- Friday Thoughts
- Pats on the Back
- Online at the library
- Students earn day of fun for effort and results on tests
- State calls Rios & Smiley ‘Outstanding’
- EHS forensics on top again
- New organ is installed at St. Andrew’s
- That’s Not all there is
- Church News
- Coldsmith honored
- Storytelling powerful in greensburg series