BOE OKs Georgiana renovations
18 May 2012, 3:43 pm
The Butler County Board of Education will renovate two buildings on the old campus of Georgiana High School to be used by Georgiana’s football team. The BOE proposed at its monthly meeting Thursday to turn Georgiana’s old band room into a field house for the school’s football team.

Campus Connection: Finalists for dean of UW School of Human Ecology post named
17 May 2012, 3:57 pm
List includes Jeanne Hogarth, Laurie Kramer and Soyeon Shim.

Kevin Haskin: Sponsorship good, in General, for HPT
17 May 2012, 2:48 pm
Drive south along Topeka Boulevard from Heartland Park Topeka and just about the first commercial business you get to is Dollar General. That's the one in Carbondale. You can find them elsewhere.

Here's Some Advice For All The Single Ladies Flooding The Housing Market
16 May 2012, 9:22 am
When Jeannie douthitt quit her tech job at IBM , she had no clue what she was doing. All she knew was she needed a change, and after divorcing her husband and sending her son off to college, she saw no reason to stay in Chicago.

HPT charting its course for the future
12 May 2012, 3:56 pm
Heartland Park Topeka owner Raymond Irwin is extremely proud of the facility he and his staff have put together since he took over in 2003, joining the city and state of Kansas in pouring millions of dollars into improvements.

Superintendent not in favor of longer summers
8 May 2012, 3:58 pm
Legislators recently passed a measure that would impact the length of summer break for local schools. On May 1, the Senate passed HB 360, a bill that would create a public school start date law that would make summer vacations longer.

Mortgage-relief programs continue to confuse, frustrate some Oklahomans
7 May 2012, 2:24 am
Mike Wise has accepted that soon he will be forced to pack up his Sand Springs home of eight years and find somewhere else to live.

NHRA stars to appear at SPEEDFEST
2 May 2012, 3:03 pm
Heartland Park Topeka has received confirmation from NHRA drag racing stars Robert Hight, Spencer Massey, Morgan Lucas and Allen Johnson that they will make appearances at the inaugural SPEEDFEST on May 17, in downtown Topeka.

IN MEMORIAM: Storm Victims
26 April 2012, 5:47 pm
Remembering the people who died in our coverage area April 27 as a result of the tornadoes.

BOE joins opposition of charter schools
24 April 2012, 5:58 pm
The Butler County Board of Education passed a resolution at its April meeting opposing charter schools in Alabama. Butler County Schools Superintendent Darren douthitt said the resolution was passed in effort to join other districts in Alabama.