Also from April 14
On the street
Photo galleries
Polls
What's your favorite thing about "Wheel of Fortune"?
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Another channel | 39% | |
| The puzzles | 32% | |
| Vanna White | 14% | |
| The prizes | 7% | |
| Pat Sajak | 7% | |
| Total | 28 | |
All stories
- Errors hinder softball again
- April 14, 2005
- The Lansing High softball team split a doubleheader with Bonner Springs on Thursday evening at Lansing City Park.
- Lions top KC Christian, roll to 5-0
- Team effort fuels LHS victory
- April 14, 2005
- Kendra Sickinger wears eye-catching bronze cleats, but it’s her golden toe that has been attracting the most attention lately.
- ‘Wheeling’ to riches
- Fortune strikes players from area
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing-area mother and son Eileen and Sean Willcott bonded this past weekend when they appeared as teammates and contestants at a special taping of “Wheel of Fortune” in Kansas City.
- Couple’s foreign adoption nightmare becomes dream
- April 14, 2005
- Though she called some parts of her international adoption experience “a nightmare,” Melissa Menzel said she would do it all over again.
- 40 years later, killers’ graves still a draw
- April 14, 2005
- Thursday, April 14, marks the 40-year anniversary of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith’s execution at the Kansas State Penitentiary, which has since been renamed the Lansing Correctional Facility. The two killers and their prey are the subject of Truman Capote’s best-seller, “In Cold Blood.”
- Soccer still perfect
- Defense to be tested Thursday night by KCC
- April 14, 2005
- Since holding off Mill Valley, 3-2, in the season-opener on March 29, the Lions have posted three straight shutouts and faced minimal threats from their opponents.
- Triple play was ‘awesome’
- April 14, 2005
- Unfortunately for the LHS softball team, the defensive gem was the lone highlight of the day as the Lions dropped a twinbill to Mill Valley.
- Lansing has roots in city
- April 14, 2005
- They may not be the namesakes of Lansing, but Tracie Lansing’s family has deep roots here.
- Officers in line for promotion
- April 14, 2005
- Two officers will be promoted Thursday.
- Council reworks priority list for major road projects
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing City Council had to shift some priorities Thursday night.
- School board to study idea of using construction manager
- April 14, 2005
- The Lansing School Board is considering hiring a Kansas City-based firm to manage construction of its $19 million elementary school and $4 million high school auditorium.
- Fitting motto
- April 14, 2005
- This week the Citizens for School Improvement and especially the Vote For Kids volunteers are celebrating the passage of the Lansing school bond issue and what it means for thousands of children, many not yet even born, and moreover, the city itself.
- Kane inks with Kansas City Kansas Community College
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing High senior pitcher Jessica Kane signed her letter-of-intent Wednesday to play softball next year at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
- Kansas judiciary coming under fire
- April 14, 2005
- News this week that the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry will begin compiling and making public an analysis of the decisions of judges across the state is another in a series of disturbing events surrounding the judiciary.
- Governor criticizes Legislature’s efforts
- April 14, 2005
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has stepped up her criticism of the Legislature’s work on school finance, the budget, health care and campaign finance reform.
- Crazy teens
- April 14, 2005
- Have you ever wondered what those crazy teenagers are up to on Saturday nights?
- Series details book’s legacy
- April 14, 2005
- This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” considered one of the 20th century’s great works of literature.
- Official canvass of votes produces no change in outcomes of races
- April 14, 2005
- There were no changes in the final outcomes in Tuesday’s election results after Friday’s canvass of votes by the Leavenworth County Commission.
- Bicycles - a little history
- April 14, 2005
- As far back as 1490, one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s students made rough drafts of a bicycle, but with no hard-surface roads, bicycles were not practical until the 1800s.
- Council raises $5,500 for research
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing High School Leadership Council raised more than $5,500 at a Late Night for Leukemia lock-in Saturday.
- PTA holds talent show
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing students in kindergarten through fifth grade will have an opportunity to showcase their skills at the PTA talent show on Tuesday.
- Fifth-graders meet baseball pros
- April 14, 2005
- Fifth-grade students at Lansing Intermediate School pitched their best questions earlier this week to Kansas City T-Bones manager Al Gallagher and Northern League umpire Ralph Willcott.
- City prepares for projects on sales tax-priority list
- April 14, 2005
- Passage of the 1 percent sales tax last week by Leavenworth County voters means the city of Lansing will go full steam ahead with its priority list of projects presented to voters before the election, Lansing’s city administrator said.
- School meets fund-raising goal
- Director to keep bargain: she’ll kiss a pig
- April 14, 2005
- Wallula Christian School raised $1,600 from a fund-raiser on Saturday.
- PTA to sponsor spring carnival
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing PTA will conduct a spring carnival with a fiesta theme from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 23 at Lansing Elementary School.
- Getting ready for kindergarten
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing Elementary School will conduct its annual Kindergarten Roundup for the 2005-06 school year on May 6.
- Ellen C. Jones
- 1927-2005
- April 14, 2005
- Services for Ellen C. Jones, 77, Leavenworth, will be at 10 a.m. today, April 14, at Davis Funeral Chapel. Burial will be at the Easton Cemetery.
- Orville J. Edmonds
- 1915-2005
- April 14, 2005
- Services for Orville J. Edmonds, 89, Leavenworth, were Tuesday, April 12, at First United Methodist Church, Leavenworth. Burial was at Sunset Memory Gardens.
- Robert I. Cochran
- 1924-2005
- April 14, 2005
- Services for Robert I. Cochran, 80, Leavenworth, were Friday, April 8, at Belden-Sexton-Sumpter Funeral Chapel, Leavenworth. Burial was in Sunset Memory Garden.
- Organ grinders ready for rally at fort
- Collectors association bringing wares to rally
- April 14, 2005
- The sound of monkey organs will fill the air at Fort Leavenworth this weekend.
- Tax-filing deadline almost here
- April 14, 2005
- If you’re running late with your taxes Friday, you’ll have two nearby choices if you want to get the April 15 postmark after 5 p.m., when the Lansing Post Office, 617 Holiday Plaza, closes for Tax Day, 2005.
- Baseball fed up with rain
- Lions eager to play, build momentum
- April 14, 2005
- The LHS baseball team hopes to snap its streak of cancellations today. Varsity is slated to play a 4 p.m. twinbill at Bonner Springs
- Work closes portion of De Soto road
- April 14, 2005
- A construction project forced officials to close part of DeSoto Road Tuesday. The closure is expected to last 60 days.
- LHS ensembles earn First Division ratings
- April 14, 2005
- The school’s Sound Spectrum ensembles received First Division ratings at a regional music festival and qualified to go to the State Solo and Small Ensemble competition on April 30 in Newton.
- LMS choirs earn superior rating
- April 14, 2005
- The LMS choirs dominated the Kaw Valley League festival.
- Scoreboard
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing High School and Middle School results from the week leading up to April 14, 2005.
- LMS earns standard of excellence
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing Middle School Principal Kerry Brungardt says he’s 99.9 percent sure that LMS achieved the Building Standard of Excellence in all five areas tested this year. And for that, he’s awarding all of his students a day off.
- Change in policy to allow seniors to attend LHS on part-time basis
- April 14, 2005
- Seniors entering their eighth semester of school at Lansing High School can apply to attend on a part-time basis beginning in spring semester 2006.
- Mutual Savings taps board chair
- April 14, 2005
- Stephen Kaaz has been elected to a one-year term as chairman of the board of directors of Mutual Savings Association.
- Police and Fire reports for April 14, 2005
- April 14, 2005
- Police and fire reports for the week of April 14, 2005.
- KU seniors coming to Leavenworth
- April 14, 2005
- The University of Kansas men’s basketball seniors’ barnstorming tour will stop at Leavenworth High School at 7:15 p.m. on Friday, April 22.
- Voters heed radio SOS
- Sales tax to buy communications system upgrade
- April 14, 2005
- The days when a Lansing Police officer has to be routed through a Leavenworth County dispatcher to communicate with a Leavenworth Police officer a half block away aren’t finished just yet.
- Hail pelts city
- April 14, 2005
- Lansing had a bout of bad weather Monday night including a short hailstorm, but local weather spotter John Bennett said the hail was “not significant at all.”
- Volunteers clear trail at Kelly Grove Park
- April 14, 2005
- Kelly Grove Park may be Lansing’s newest park but it already has received upgrades thanks to the 2005 Leadership Leavenworth-Lansing class, a program for community members that is run by the Leavenworth-Lansing Area Chamber of Commerce, and Fort Leavenworth Boy Scout Troop 66.
- LHS senior clears hurdles, wins medals for track team
- April 14, 2005
- In four years as a varsity hurdler, Ethan Nalker never had medaled until April 5. Now he’s at four and counting.
- LHS forensics places first at tournament
- April 14, 2005
- The Forensics team placed first at the Spring Hill Invitational.
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