07/15/11 Former Jayhawk track and field star, Scott Russell, made headlines Wednesday when he broke his own six-year-old Canadian national record in the javelin throw by over 40 cm. His toss of 84.81 meters (278-3 ft.) is the eighth best in the world this year and earned him the title at the 2011 Toronto International Track and Field Games.
07/14/11 After Basehor city staff proposed a 2012 budget that would keep residents' mill levy steady, one council member responded last week with a proposal to further cut spending by slashing benefits for city employees.
07/14/11 The Basehor-Linwood school board will continue to meet periodically in Linwood despite one board member's push Monday to move all its meetings to the district's central office in Basehor.
07/13/11 All the Chieftains had to do July 6 was take the floor at the Bonner Springs YMCA and beat Maranatha Academy and they would finish undefeated at their Wednesday night summer league.
07/11/11 An anonymous donor has given the Leavenworth County Humane Society a site on which to build its first-ever public home.
06/28/11 A long range forecast for flooding of the Missouri River has been updated, with the river now predicted to rise to as much as 34 feet in the Leavenworth area.
06/23/11 The first thing Hugo Andres Navarrete Carvacho noticed was the cold.
06/22/11 When the children entered the sanctuary at Trinity Lutheran Church earlier this month, they could tell it was something different than another day at church.
06/21/11 8-year-old McLouth man and his 14-year-old son were rescued Monday afternoon from the rain-swollen waters of Stranger Creek. Jim Pennel and his son, Derrek, were canoeing in the creek near 219th Street and 4-H Road when a branch hit their canoe, capsizing it.
06/10/11 Principal Brain Schwanz, Monticello Trails Middle School, received special recognition from the Board of Education at its regular meeting on Monday, April 11.
06/09/11 For a lot of young people, the beginning of summer means that search for a summer job. But according to some teens living in the area, summer jobs locally, like in Bonner Springs or Basehor, are rather scarce these days.
06/09/11 News published in The Chieftain in the second week of June 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
06/09/11 Before choosing Wyandotte County as the site of the new Victory Junction Midwest camp for chronically ill children, NASCAR's Petty family also considered several sites in southeast Leavenworth County.
06/08/11 The Basehor Historical Museum Society will sponsor an informational meeting next week about a possible new Basehor-area chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
06/08/11 Q5 with Ron Romig. Ron Romig is president and CEO of Citizens Savings & Loan in Leavenworth.
06/07/11 The Kansas Department of Transportation has awarded Wyandotte County over $2 million worth of funding for a construction project in West Wyandotte County. Just over $1.7 million in funding will be provided for grading and surfacing on Donahoo Road, ranging from Kansas Highway 7 to 131st Street. Additionally, KDOT will help fund intersection repair, grading and surfacing at U.S. Highway 73 and ...
06/01/11 Thelma Ruth Wilhite, 81, Spring Hill, formerly of rural Linwood, died Saturday, May 28, 2011, at Black Hawk Assisted Living, Spring Hill. She was born March 21, 1930, in Lock Springs, Mo.
05/26/11 About 640 undergraduate degree candidates were honored during commencement ceremonies May 14 at Emporia State University.
05/26/11 Elizabeth Novo-Gradac is co-owner of Metro Pawn in Kansas City, Kan.
05/26/11 Gabe Vlasic, who describes himself as a self-made golfer after spending a summer working on the golf course to prepare for his senior season, realized a goal on Monday. | 
