Edgerton News

Back in 1863, William Quantrill’s band of guerillas passed through Gardner, Kan., on the way to burn down Lawrence.These days it’s like some of that rebel chaos rubbed off on Gardner City Hall.A fistfight between councilmen, illegal meetings, secret pay raises and a fractured council largely appointed by the mayor.That’s no doubt ... (more)

Once again Edgerton residents find themselves on the front lines fighting for somethingA other communities take for granted: a library.

A preliminary proposal for cuts to library services won't include closing the Edgerton branch of the Johnson County Library.

Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Johnson County will likely add three new representatives to the Kansas House of Representatives next year.

The City of Edgerton is hereby soliciting proposals from interested firms to provide construction inspection services for the Community Development Block Grant sanitary sewer project.

Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com Johnson County Commissioners narrowly approved a request from the Edgerton Cemetery Association to form a cemetery district with taxing authority on Jan.

Do you think it's a First Amendment right of American citizens to be allowed to demonstrate near funerals on public property? GARDNER - Two people died in an early morning wreck that shut down southbound I-35 near Gardner for several hours.

Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com Johnson County Commissioners narrowly approved a request from the Edgerton Cemetery Association to form a cemetery district with taxing authority on Jan.

Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com The Gardner Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors offered its endorsement to the USD 231 school bond issue in late December.

Joseph Michael "Mike" Schmidt died Dec. 16 at age 71, in San Rafael, Calif., after a courageous year-long battle with small cell lung cancer.