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City looks to TIFs to increase tax base
By Patrick Cady
January 18, 2007
Eudora City Administrator Cheryl Beatty outlined the challenge. Eudora needs more commercial business to maintain growth. The prime places where businesses might grow need infrastructural improvements the city can’t afford. Residential property taxpayers outnumber commercial taxpayers 9-to-1. The disparity means few restaurants, one hardware store and no large general store, Beatty said.
USD 491 school board members recognized
January 18, 2007
Members of the Eudora Board of Education were acknowledged at the Jan. 11 school board meeting in conjunction with School Board Recognition Month, sponsored by the Kansas Association of School Boards.
Statehouse briefing: Kline cleared of ethics allegation
Compiled by The Eudora News news sources
January 18, 2007
Here are today’s headlines from Kansas government.
Congressional briefing — Roberts: Bush reversal on warrantless wiretaps ‘good news’
Compiled by The Eudora News news sources
January 18, 2007
Here are today’s headlines from the Kansas congressional delegation.
LMH raising funds
January 18, 2007
Church news
January 18, 2007
Days Gone By
By Theresa Abel
January 18, 2007
Games rescheduled
January 18, 2007
Ski trip planned
January 18, 2007
Openings are available for the spring 2007 ski trip to Winter Park Resort in Colorado.
Softball tournament planned
January 18, 2007
Boys roll in Tongie tournament opener
By J.J. De Simone
January 18, 2007
After a week off because of poor weather, the Eudora boys basketball team returned with a vengeance having learned some valuable lessons. The Cardinals dominated the Pleasant Ridge Rams Monday night 62-49 in the first round of the Tonganoxie Invitational tournament. The win improved Eudora’s record to 5-4.
Turnaround continued
By J.J. De Simone
January 18, 2007
After a month of wins that improved its record to 7-3, the Eudora girls basketball team is sticking with its trend of improved play. After a successful 62-51 showing Jan. 11 against Spring Hill, the Cardinals made waves in the first round of the Tonganoxie Invitational tournament, beating Atchison 56-52 Monday night.
Wrestlers impress at Basehor tourney
By J.J. De Simone
January 18, 2007
In any other wrestling tournament, getting 17th place would not be anything to get too excited about. But considering the tough Class 6A competition from Shawnee Mission East and Class 5A big guns St. Thomas Aquinas, acquiring 70.5 points — the best Eudora has ever gotten in the 27-team Bobcat Classic tournament — is nothing to be ashamed about.
All-metro teams
January 18, 2007
Middle school basketball
January 18, 2007
Traffic safety mostly our responsibility
January 18, 2007
A citizen’s panel appointed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius a year ago released a report Tuesday of recommendations to improve traffic safety in Kansas. The panel, called Driving Force, made 28 recommendations in 11 areas of studies — from better statewide trauma care and emergency medical services to how to address problems associated with teen and senior drivers.
Obituary: Gerald B. Park
1914-2007
January 18, 2007
Obituary: Harold A. Morley
1920-2007
January 18, 2007
Culinary arts students get surprise fire training
January 18, 2007
If a souffle incinerates or a pot of baked beans bursts into flame, Jason Gray’s culinary arts classes will be ready.
Pace frustrating but city dealing with unsafe structures
By Patrick Cady
January 18, 2007
As city officials continue toward revitalizing Eudora’s downtown district, a question hangs over the project in the form of a red, white and blue crumbling wall.
Eudora statue project progressing on two fronts
By Patrick Cady
January 18, 2007
Progress on one of the centerpieces of Eudora’s 150th anniversary celebration is coming in ahead of schedule. That’s because a commemorative brick drive and a seven-month series of fund-raisers helped supporters net more than half of the money needed to pay for a bronze statue of the town’s namesake. Much more. “I think we’re at about 80 percent,” Eudora Lions Club member Tom Tucker said.
Library news
January 18, 2007
Police report
January 18, 2007
Historical society meeting
January 18, 2007
Scholars’ Bowl
January 18, 2007
EHS notes
January 18, 2007
Community service for peace
January 18, 2007
Lions Club hosting blood drive
January 18, 2007
Natural wonders
EMS teacher helps students to discover local prairies
By Patrick Cady
January 18, 2007
Students in Joe Pickett’s seventh-grade science class Jan. 9 crouched against the wall. They were poised, ready to run. For the moment, the students weren’t outside Eudora Middle School, but scrounging in the open Kansas prairie. There, the students left their familiar lives behind. They were coyotes and, worse, they were on the edge of starvation.
Anniversary: Conrad
January 18, 2007
Obituary: Walter L. Montgomery
1930-2007
January 18, 2007
Obituary: Donald D. Haima
1957-2007
January 18, 2007
Obituary: Maryellen Gore Freeland
1926-2007
January 18, 2007
Obituary: Ruth H. Dunavin
1915-2007
January 18, 2007
School calendar
January 18, 2007
Community calendar
January 18, 2007
ECKAN distributing locally
January 18, 2007
Quilt guild meeting
January 18, 2007
Sermon series
January 18, 2007
Middle school update
January 18, 2007
The Fly Route
By Joel Reichenberger
January 18, 2007
Board hears plan for assessments
By Patrick Cady
January 18, 2007
After earning nine standards of excellence on the state’s 2006 assessment tests, students and faculty at Eudora USD 491 aren’t slowing down. The Eudora board of education heard detailed plans last Thursday of what it’s going to take to keep the momentum rolling.
Youth group meeting
January 18, 2007