“Blockbuster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. If Carl Icahn and the rest of the company’s owners can’t find a business model that would return the business to profitability, an institution of my childhood will be lost. And my family will be out of options for viewing movies.”
Junior Tori Holt’s mother and grandmother died within months of each other of ovarian cancer. On Sunday, she will honor both of them at the Ovarian Cancer Whisper Walk hosted by the Spelman Medical Foundation.
After changing schools, Brooks Sargent fell in love with rowing.
On any given school day, East’s gym would be empty at five in the morning. No varsity point guards would rush to dribble the basketball up the court. The only movement would come from the dust-bunnies floating across the hardwood, spurred on by the drafts of the air conditioning system. [...]
One year. This is how long my mom has lived in Unterschleißheim, Germany. How long it has been since she moved there to take on a work assignment for her company, Texas Instruments. How long we’ve been living 5,000 miles apart. It is how long I’ve been explaining to friend [...]
The score was 42-14. East had the ball on Olathe North’s 40 yard line. With only enough time to run one last play, there was no chance they could pull out this playoff win. After an off-tackle play, a blow of the whistle, and a congratulations to the victorious Eagles, [...]
One hundred forty-seven. It’s the number of days left until St. Patrick’s Day- a fact made known to the communities of Prairie Village, Leawood and Overland Park by a sign just inside the door of neighborhood eatery O’Neill’s Restaurant & Bar. A fact I reported to my dad each time [...]
Senior Leia Swanson has always been the quieter twin, according to her father. At birth, she was smaller than her twin sister senior Chandra Swanson, as well as a few minutes later (although the two were about six weeks premature). Her observant personality contrasted with the more adventurous nature of [...]
Among the set of administrative imperatives that superintendent Dr. Gene Johnson
