Gardner 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)

The arrest warrant has been dropped against the Great Bend man originally sought by Great Bend authorities for allegedly beating and cutting of his ex-fiance a week ago and who turned himself to the Gardner police Thursday, Great Bend Police Chief Dean Akings said Friday.

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

GARDNER, Kan. - A northeast Kansas woman injured after a hit-and-run crash involving a tractor-trailer has delivered a healthy baby girl.

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

A rush hour hit-and-run crash critically injured a pregnant woman this morning and created a backup along northbound Interstate 35 in Johnson County that stretched to Gardner.Emergency crews extricated the 33-year-old woman from the crash that occurred about 6:50 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-35 near the weigh station, just north of West 167th ... (more)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals of Gardner, Kansas will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 at 6:30 pm in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 120 E. Main Street in consideration of the following item to-wit: CASE NO.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING. Notice is hereby given that the Planning Commission of Gardner, Kansas will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 7:00 pm in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 120 E. Main Street in consideration of the following item to-wit: CASE NO.

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.

A USD 231 voters approved a $72 million bond issue on Tuesday. More than 5,000 voters returned ballots in the mail-in election.

GARDNER, Kan. - A man and a woman were killed when a car overturned on I-35 in southwestern Johnson County early Tuesday morning.

Two people were killed early this morning when they were ejected during a rollover crash that shut down southbound Interstate 35 near Gardner for several hours.

A car going south on Interstate 35 lost control and overturned at Moonlight Road in Gardner, KS, about 1:45 a.m. Tuesday.

Kevin David Pyle, 54, of Gardner, went home on Jan. 26, 2012 after a brave, hard fought battle with a long illness.

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.

Gardner, Kan. - A mysterious substance in a terrorism textbook gives one local college student the scare of her life.

ORDINANCE NO. 2390 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND DELIVERY OF $3,995,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 2012A, OF THE CITY OF GARDNER, KANSAS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF AN ANNUAL TAX FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING THE PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON THE BONDS AS THEY BECOME DUE.

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.

The Mothers of Preschoolers chapter at Fellowship Bible Church will host an American Red Cross blood drive for the Gardner community on Thursday, Jan.