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Residents and De Soto City Council members spoke out at the March 4 De Soto City Council meeting about a proposed update of Johnson County's solid waste management plan that would dictate curbside recycling countywide.

The city of De Soto won't be undertaking anything as ambitious as last fall's repaving of 83rd Street east of Kill Creek Road in 2010. To stretch budget dollars, the city will use slurry seal in conjunction with mill and overlay repaving this year.

The De Soto USD 232 Board of Education approved a bid Monday for the expansion of De Soto High School, which will help ease crowding in hallways between classes. The bid for $2.28 million was 30 percent lower than the project estimate.

Carly Stanley (13) pushes the ball up the field during a game last season. Stanley, senior, will move to the middle and should continue to provide the girls soccer team with scoring ability. The Wildcats open the season against Spring Hill March 25 at De Soto.

Cole Cannon, top, was one of two De Soto wrestlers to qualify for this year’s state tournament. Cannon (160) and Donny Parr (189) both advanced to state and will return next year.

A bulldozer pushes a large pile of bottles out of the way to make room for more bottles to come at the Ripple Glass recycling plant. The plant sees up to 20 tons of bottles per week.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

With only 10 questions, the 2010 Census form is one of the shortest in history and only takes about 10 minutes to complete. We turuned to the bureau's Web site, census.gov, for this week's Five Questions about the census.

U.S. Census Bureau Public Information Office

Savannah Moss, 6, left, De Soto, and Catherine Grosdidier, 10, Eudora, right, help package meal bags Saturday for Haiti at Eudora Elementary School. A volunteer group called Numana Inc. organized the Kaw Valley Feeding Haiti event to prepare more than 164,000 meals to ship to Haiti.

Photo by Mike Yoder

A garage sale at the Crossing Youth Center that will benefit Mission of Hope to Haiti will continue until 4 p.m. today.

Photo by Estuardo Garcia

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Scott Robinson, with the VFW Mens Auxiliary, puts a stack of pancakes on Dylan Male's plate. The mens auxiliary will be having a pancake breakfast fundraiser until noon at the De Soto VFW.

Photo by Estuardo Garcia

With single-digit housing starts and a big slide single-family home sale prices, De Soto's overall valuation fell for a second-straight year, according to the Johnson County Appraiser's annual report.

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Lexington Trails Middle School counselor Angie Russell, lower right and students treat Abby, the school’s service dog, to a party for her fourth birthday Monday. The dog owned by Russell’s neighbors comes to the school daily to work with students.

Photo by Elvyn Jones

Courtney Goodin as Ma Joad comforts her son Tom, played by Derrick Mathern, in a scene for the De Soto High School play “The Grapes of Wrath.” It is one of two plays with "Steel Magnolias" De Soto High School students are performing this week.

Photo by Elvyn Jones

Donny Parr, right, grapples with an opponent during a 189-pound match Friday at the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Salina.