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By Matt Tait
January 10, 2002
The Mill Valley basketball team learned a huge lesson Tuesday night: The Jaguars could win without all-Kaw Valley guard Cody Ptacek in the lineup.
By Dean Backes
January 10, 2002
Tia Bernard and Ashley Carlson each ripped the cords with three pointers in the final 1:18 to keep the Wildcats hopes of a huge rally alive last Friday night in Lansing.
By Dean Backes
January 10, 2002
De Soto’s boys basketball team took no offense to traveling to Lansing to take on the Lions last Friday nigh, but the team didn’t take its offense either.
By Matt Tait
January 10, 2002
After nearly earning its first victory of the season on Friday, Jan. 4, at Piper, the Mill Valley girls basketball team gave it another shot Tuesday at Basehor-Linwood.
January 10, 2002
De Soto should view the coming redistricting of Kansas legislative seats as an opportunity.
January 10, 2002
As I enjoyed our shirtsleeves winter weather Tuesday it occurred to me that winter, like a recession, is something that is happening to other people. People who live in Buffalo, and unaccountably, the Carolinas and Georgia.
By Staff Report
January 10, 2002
By Eric Gruber
January 10, 2002
The outside of Snow’s Hair Cut Shop has all the traditional features of the American barber shop: red, white and blue decorative poles grace the entrance, and the etching on the window reads, “No shaves.” Inside, combs are suspended in a blue-green liquid, waiting to part the hair of the next customer who steps inside and sits down in the barber chair.
By Dean Backes
January 10, 2002
If toughness and desire were all it took to win wrestling matches, De Soto would probably be undefeated.
By Eric Gruber
January 10, 2002
Kristen Erickson hopes her new business in De Soto will rub customers the right way.
January 10, 2002
By Elvyn Jones
January 10, 2002
De Soto’s two representatives to the Kansas Legislature easily identified the state’s budget crunch as the dominant issue in the coming legislative session.
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January 10, 2002
Charles and Monica (Van Goethem) Moll, Olathe, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Gardner Senior Center, 128 East Park Street, Gardner.
January 10, 2002
By Elvyn Jones
January 10, 2002
Former De Soto City Administrator Gerald Cooper has accepted a severance offer from the city.
By Elvyn Jones
January 10, 2002
Two competing petitioners are seeking to influence the future of a .4-mile section of road southeast of De Soto.
By Theresa Freed
January 10, 2002
Facing an almost certain cut in state aid, a committee of De Soto USD 232 administrators has suggested $1.9 million in cost-saving measures that includes the closing of Woodsonia Elementary.
By Elvyn Jones
January 10, 2002
Allyssa King said a 4-H project has taught her the lesson that you get back what you give.