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WWII-era munitions safely detonated: By Estuardo Garcia; July 20, 2010; Russ Owens, owner of Owens Contracting in Bonner Springs, has seen a lot of strange things in his line of work, but what he found Sunday was the strangest.
Brigadier general steps up to Fort Leavenworth post: By Estuardo Garcia; July 10, 2010; There’s a new face at Fort Leavenworth.
Free State’s farm dinner features all-local menu: By Estuardo Garcia; June 27, 2010; Chef Rick Martin thinks there is a huge disconnect between people and their food, but he’s been working on a way to change that.
Families find strength in autism support group: By Estuardo Garcia; June 6, 2010; For the first two years of his life, Isaac Dority wouldn’t look people in the eye. Rebecca Dority, Isaac’s mother, said his speech was minimal, too. Isaac would only repeat the last thing he heard.
Colleagues, public pay tribute to fallen Shawnee firefighter at makeshift memorial: Firefighter was a KU grad; relatives live in Lawrence; By Estuardo Garcia; May 25, 2010; Rob Moritz and his 11-year-old son Andrew Moritz stood in front of the memorial for fallen Shawnee police officers and firefighters looking at the photo of John Glaser, the Shawnee Fire Department firefighter who lost his life during a house fire Saturday.
De Soto residents help clean up barn after storm: By Estuardo Garcia; May 15, 2010; When the residents of De Soto heard about what had happened to Darrel Zimmerman, they said they would do anything to help. Friday evening, they didn’t disappoint.
Historic barn in De Soto destroyed during storm: By Estuardo Garcia; May 14, 2010; For 10 years the barn at Zimmerman’s Kill Creek Farm has been a lot of things to a lot of people. It was a place for reuniting families to come together.
De Soto school adds solar, wind power: By Estuardo Garcia; May 12, 2010; The 2009 Kansas Green School of the Year just got a little greener.
Stranger Creek danger rising near Linwood: Leavenworth Co. creek’s erosion puts property, roadways at risk; By Estuardo Garcia; March 1, 2010; A little more than a decade ago, Linwood resident Bill Jones could look out to his back yard and see an 80-foot storage shed just along Stranger Creek.
Squirrels scarce at scramble: By Estuardo Garcia; February 7, 2010; When Aaron Kaser and his two stepsons, Christjen, 9, and Hunter Schmidt, 8, signed up to participate in some squirrel hunting, he wanted to spend some time doing things dads and sons do.

Recent photos

Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, left, hands Brig. Gen. Sean MacFarland his assumption orders at Fort Leavenworth on Friday.

About 50 people gathered at Prairie Star Farm in De Soto to participate in the Free State Brewing Company’s inaugural Beer Dinner on the Farm event.

As part of the memorial, Shawnee Fire Department Captain Ray Pettigrew put a helmet with John Glaser's last name in front of the fallen officer firefighter memorial at station 71.

Rob Moritz and his 11-year-old son Andrew Moritz came to the fallen Shawnee police officer and firefighter memorial Monday at station 71.

The plaque in front of station 71, which honors fallen Shawnee police officers and Shawnee firefighters, has only one name on it. Soon Glaser's name will be added to this memorial.

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