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PLAY BALL! NCCC to host intergenerational baseball game on April 21
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter Grab the peanuts and Cracker Jacks and mark those calendars for the annual intergenerational baseball game Saturday, April 21 at 1 p.m. at NCCC’s Hudson Field. Admission to the annual event is free of charge as the Panthers take on Cowley College. Pregame activities begin at 12:30 with free concessions, autographed baseballs from the NCCC baseball team, face painting, the presentation of the colors from members ...
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County on hold until April 11 on appraisal
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter ERIE -- Neosho County commissioners will have to wait another five days before the county receives the final tax appraisal on Ash Grove Cement, said county appraiser David Thornton during Thursday’s regular meeting. “We’ll have the appraisal from Hadco in hand, guaranteed next Wednesday (April 11),” Thornton told the commission. Thornton added that the appraisal could possibly be delivered to him electronically...
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State to furlough court workers
The Thirty-First Judicial District courts in Allen, Neosho, Wilson and Woodson counties as well as other district court offices across the state, will be closed for five Fridays starting in April and ending in June. The furlough days (court clerks and other state court workers will be on unpaid leave these days) are set for April 13 and 27, May 11 and 25 and June 8. The scheduled court closings are necessary because of the Legislature’s failu...
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Egg Hunt at Elks Lake rescheduled
The Chanute Elks Lodge 806 Easter Egg Hunt Saturday has been rescheduled for Sunday, April 15 at 1:30 p.m. at the Chanute Elks Lake (north of Chanute). There will be more than 6,000 plastic eggs to find. Children up to 5th grade are invited to participate.
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Gov. Brownback on hand for Spirit ribbon cutting
A new 55,000-square-foot manufacturing facility owned by Spirit AeroSystems Inc. formally opened Thursday in Chanute. Governor Sam Brownback and Commerce Secretary Pat George joined company leaders, workers and other special guests at a ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony. “This facility represents a great accomplishment for Spirit AeroSystems, Chanute, and Kansas,” Gov. Brownback said. “It brings to bear some of the best assets that Ka...
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Area trucker in Dallas during tornado
Staff and wire reports Stunning video from Dallas showed big-rig trailers tossed into the air and spiraling like footballs on Tuesday. An area trucker was a first-hand witness. Van Ward, a truck driver from Independence, was coming back to the Schneider National Terminal at I-20 and Bonnieview Road outside of Dallas from a re-certification training drive as the tornado was approaching the terminal. “We could see the tornado coming from the s...
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Angleton serves on national student council advisory board
Joshua Vail Tribune reporter Royster Middle School 8th grader Jenny Angleton is a leader in her school, and for the last two years she has been working with student leaders at the national level as well. Angleton, along with Royster administrator Lori Kiblinger, will finish terms on the National Association of Student Councils Advisory Council in June. Angleton has the honor of being the only middle school student in the nation to have a sea...
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USD 413 briefs
Chanute Elementary opens doors for Kindergarten Roundup Parents and their soon-to-be kindergartners will have an opportunity to visit Chanute Elementary School on two different dates this month. Kindergarten Roundup will be held on April 17 and 26. Parents and their children should arrive at the school by 6 p.m. Parents will hear about classroom curriculum, necessary immunizations and records they need to have to enroll their child in school ...
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Beyond spry: Age an asset for fitness enthusiast
Kansas State Extension MANHATTAN – Don’t let Marge Neely’s small stature -- just five feet early in the morning and after a good stretch – or age fool you. At 92, when many of her contemporaries have slowed down, she’s recruiting participants for Walk Kansas, said Sharolyn Jackson, state coordinator for the annual K-State Research and Extension fitness challenge. The eight-week statewide fitness effort encourages teams of six to compile mile...
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Forensics is not CSI: Eighth graders prepare for high school enrollment
Connie Woodard USD 413 public relations It’s spring in Chanute Public Schools. That means the school counselors are gearing up to enroll more than 600 students who will be attending high school this fall. At the same time, the middle school counselors are putting in extra hours to ensure that Royster eighth graders are ready for that move to high school. “The first year as freshmen is rough. Kids make a lot of mistakes they wouldn’t make if ...
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Peer group issues discipline at Royster
Connie Woodard USD 413 public relations Assistant Principal Lori Kiblinger was ready to try something different. Counselor Bruce Turner came up with a possible plan and now a group of students is prepared to issue consequences when their peers break the rules at Royster Middle School. Cameron Dietsch, Brooks Hartman, Madi Rollins, Savannah Hastings, Jenny Angleton and Kenton Allen are now sitting on a Peer Review Board at the middle school. T...
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Humboldt accident victim in fair condition
Cris Coronado, 20, Humboldt, is listed in fair condition at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., after a Saturday evening accident. According to friends in Humboldt, Coronado suffered extensive injuries to his legs and suffered broken bones in his face. Passenger Ryan Cullison, 20, Humboldt, was transported to Coffeyville, then to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., and has since been discharged, according to hospital representatives. Cameron ...
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Rare book presentation part of Borgeson’s Czech trip
A Martin Johnson book waiting for 75 years for someone to take it home has made its way to the Osa and Martin Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute. Czech filmmaker and photographer Jan Svato≈°, in co-operation with the Safari Museum and U.S. Embassy in Prague, introduced the complete Johnsons’ work in Czech last week. The exhibition called The Origin of Cinematic Africa was formally opened by David Gainer, cultural attach√© of the U.S. Embassy, b...
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USD 413 board approves virtual school
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter At the USD 413 School Board April meeting, the school board approved entering a new virtual school program from Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center. The Chanute Virtual Education program, powered by Greenbush’s E2020 curriculum, will be available to students grade 6-12 and residents of the Chanute area who have not graduated from high school. According to the mockup brochure used to present the pro...
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Another ghost tour planned in Chanute
Two ghost hunts will be taking place at opposite ends of Kansas this month — one in a museum, and one in a hotel!¬† The entire Hotel Josephine in Holton has been rented for a ladies only ghost hunt. The hotel is considered to be one of the most haunted in Kansas, with plenty of documented ghost activity.¬†There will be wine and pizza, ghost stories and some all night ghost hunting! For the serious, rugged and determined ghost hunter there is ...
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Lesson on ‘Trail of the Whispering Giants’
Have you heard of the “Trail of the Whispering Giants?” I know I hadn’t until I paid a visit to the small community of Troy, Kan., located in the northeast corner of Kansas, in Doniphan County. That is the corner county of our state with irregular border lines that are formed by the Missouri River. Troy is on the west side of the Missouri River and St. Joseph, Mo., is east of the river. When I visited this small county-seat town, I saw a tall...
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Weekend American Legion district convention in Chanute at Post 170
The Kansas American Legion Third District convention is this weekend in Chanute. Members from the 26 legion posts in the Third District, which mostly covers southeast Kansas, will be in Chanute over the weekend. The American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American Legion will also be having their conventions. Post 170 Commander Wendell Allen estimated there will be 75-100 American Legion members and around 200 people total including t...
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Chanute name known halfway around world
Editor’s note: Harold Campbell, former Tribune reporter, left Chanute for Russia to get married. His latest venture has taken he and his wife to India. This is a first person account. For the past four and a half months, my wife, Nadya, and I have been teaching English at two Christian children’s homes in India. I have to admit, though, that writing about it is difficult. The problem isn’t the kids — they’re great. Instead, Nadya and I agree ...
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KDOR issues tax extension then rescinds on Ash Grove, then reverses decision again
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter ERIE -- Neosho County commissioners and representatives from the Kansas Department of Revenue held a heated teleconference call during the commission’s regular meeting Friday. The heart of the discussion focused on KDOR granting tax extensions to all county tax properties but then rescinding the county’s request for only tax valuation notices regarding real property at Ash Grove Cement. However, by day’s end th...
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RMS students write haikus inspired by Holocaust novel
Joshua Vail Tribune reporter Janet Rehmert has been using Jerry Spinelli’s novel “Milkweed” in her language arts class at Royster Middle School for seven years and she anticipates its impact much longer.¬† Rehmert said her students usually enjoy the book because it allows them to see the Holocaust through the eyes of a young boy named Misha, a gypsy orphan living amongst the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. Seventh grader Destiny Beal described Mis...
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