April Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Hope Unlimited and Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center are promoting awareness of SANE/SART. (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Sexual Assault Response Team).
Teal ribbons have been wrapped around trees in the community. These ribbons represent victims of sexual assault in Neosho and surrounding counties.
SANE/SART is a community-based, coordinated response to child and adult victims of sexual assa...
Shields apprehended in St. Joseph, Mo. Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
A tip received by the Chanute Police Department led to a high-speed chase that ended with the arrest of accused murderer Brian Shields in St. Joseph, Mo.
The nearly three-month search for Shields ended Tuesday when he was ejected from the vehicle he crashed in an attempt to avoid stop-sticks placed in the roadway by Missouri Highway Patrol.
Shields remains hospitalized, but local law enforcement has not released in...
DeGeer awarded Alabama beef foundation scholarship
The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Foundation (BCIF) awarded a graduate fellowship and two undergraduate scholarships to three outstanding young people at the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association annual meeting and awards program held in conjunction with the 70th annual Alabama Cattlemen’s Association Convention in Birmingham on March 23.
The 2013 Alabama BCIF Graduate Fellowship was awarded to Staci DeGeer, a doctoral student in me...
Commission eyes adding option for gas-line maintenance
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
The Chanute City Commission will look further into updating an ordinance to prevent city residents from incurring damages due to gas line maintenance.
The push for a resolution to ordinance 14.12.070 began when recently reelected City Commissioner Martha McCoy expressed her concerns about whether a resident should have to pay to fix a broken gas line.
“Right now, private lines on private property are repaired and ...
Candidates for CRC director down to four
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
The Chanute Recreation Commission (CRC) has narrowed its list of director candidates to four after initially receiving more than 20 resumes and applications.
City Manager J.D. Lester overlooked a one-paragraph statement in his city manager’s report Monday stating that the CRC would begin face-to-face interviews with the four next week. Possibly the information was skipped amid the exciting prospect of an upcoming ...
Lett retires from local
CPA firm Joshua Vail
Tribune Reporter
Bob Lett retired for the second time on Thursday, this time from Charles Rick Sharp CPA after 11 years. He previously retired after serving 30 years as an agent for the Internal Revenue Service.
Lett is a Chanute native, who graduated from Chanute High School in 1965. He spent one year at NCCC and received his Bachelor’s of Science in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from Pittsburg State Univ...
NCCC still on hold on state cuts
At their April 13 regular meeting, the Neosho County Community College Board of Trustees again tabled the approval of the negotiated agreement with the faculty.
In his president’s report, Brian Inbody mentioned that it’s still looking like a two to four percent cut to their budget. The agreement was already tabled once at the March meeting. At this point, the state legislature has not passed a budget or a tax plan.
Inbody mentioned there is a...
Coffee has perks, and problems
Dear Reno: I have heard that it is good to drink Coffee. If so, can you explain? Thank you – D. P
All coffee drinkers will agree how wonderful it is to wake up  in the mornings to the aroma of coffee brewing, also how great it tastes and that coffee gives a good start to the day ahead.
If you are like most people, you drink coffee for the caffeine content or as a daily habit. But do you ever stop to think what it does for your health?
Coffee...
Red Pepper’s new location at Southtown Joshua Vail
Tribune Reporter
The Red Pepper has moved to a new location on S. Santa Fe.
Their last day of business on Main Street was March 23, and the first day at their new location inside Pump n’ Pete’s at Southtown at 2110 S. Santa Fe was March 30.
Owner Carla Tabares said there were multiple reasons for the move.
“The biggest reason was because I’ve always wanted to come to the south end of town and this was an opportunity that I couldn’t...
Chanute city election set, recount asked in Erie
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
Recently elected Chanute City Commissioner Tim Erickson remains atop the candidates for a commission seat after Neosho County Commissioners on Thursday canvassed the April 2 city/school general election.
Four provisional ballots did not sway the results of the April 2 election that had Erickson and incumbents Tim Egner and Martha McCoy as the three top vote getters.
Had two provisional ballots voted McCoy instead ...
11-year-olds’ birthday party to support autism group
Stu Butcher
Tribune Editor
A couple of Chanute Elementary School 5th graders are foregoing presents at their joint birthday party in support of a good cause.
Lilly Falk turned 11 on Wednesday and Raegan Haight’s 11th birthday was on Thursday. The friends, who have been in the same class since 1st grade, have celebrated class birthdays together for several years.
Raegan is the daughter of John and Karla Haight.
“For years they’ve had parties a...
Is God’s wrath coming to Chanute?
Benedict grocer
says ‘yes’
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
Some Chanute residents may be concerned about the advertisements that have appeared recently in the Chanute Tribune foretelling of the city’s demise due to a biblical tornado.
Although an old wives tale says that it would take the hand of God to place a tornado in Chanute due to the Neosho River acting as a protective barrier around the city, Pastor Joe Wortham of the Congregation of the...
Library Board readies appointments for city vote
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
The Chanute Library Board took care of some spring bookkeeping Wednesday by making changes to its bylaws and voting to reappoint its two top board members.
The Board unanimously approved reappointing Chairman Benny Robbins and Vice Chairman Bob Geiger as well as changes to tighten up its bylaws by switching its meeting time and eliminating the library building and budget committees.
Robbins recently concluded his ...
CCT’s On Golden Pond opens Friday Joshua Vail
Tribune Reporter
The loons are back On Golden Pond and so are the annual visitors.
The Chanute Community Theatre production of “On Golden Pond” opens Friday.
Director Rick Huguenin said On Golden Pond focuses on Norman Thayer, Jr., and his wife, Ethel, who own a cottage on Golden Pond and spend their summers there.
“Norman and Ethel have been coming to golden pond for the last 48 years of their lives,” he said. “They have one daugh...
Chappell looks ahead after ending tenure as mayor
Does not rule out another city commission run
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
Despite having only 18 days left on his term, Chanute Mayor Jim Chappell seeks to continue serving Chanute after failing a bid for reelection.
Chappell concluded his final meeting as mayor Monday night by thanking his fellow city commissioners for their efforts in putting Chanute first when it comes to making decisions.
“The last two years, and I had a two-term period ...
Santa Fe Lake in high demand
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
The Chanute City Commission welcomed the idea of having more activities at Santa Fe Lake while entertaining two proposals Monday night.
City commissioners agreed to supporting a Relay For Life fishing tournament and a Stand Up Paddleboard event at Santa Fe Lake that they hope will attract more attention to the area.
“I’m happy to see someone trying something,“ City Commissioner Tim Egner said. “[The fishing tourna...
Barton wins Best of Show
Art awards were announced at a reception for the Neosho Valley Spring Art Exhibit 2013 on Sunday at the Chanute Art Gallery.
Diane Dobson Barton of Humboldt won Best of Show from among the 30 works of art on exhibit.¬† Steve Greenwall, retired art instructor at Allen County Community College of Iola, served as judge for the event. He shared his critique of the winners’ works during the reception.
Other winners included Skip Kreibach, of LeRoy...
Neosho native shows locals the ropes of writing memoirs
Jimmy Potts
Tribune Reporter
Former Neosho County resident Suzanne Mundell Waring shared her experience writing her own memoirs with a class of budding writers.
While most writers put pen to paper in hopes of telling their stories to a large audience, students from the Write Your Memoirs Class have a much smaller audience in mind - their families.
Most college classrooms feature a host of students in their late teens and early 20s making quic...
