Olathe News

Early American, Southern , Gospel, Bluegrass, Folk, Cowboy, Country, Tin Pan Alley, children's song, silly songs, modern country, top 40 hits-all of these genres entertain audiences in the new production, With A Banjo On My Knee at The Chestnut Fine Arts Center in Olathe, KS, at the edge of the KC Metro area through June 23.

Olathe school officials are monitoring weather forecasts for Monday night but expect graduations at the four high schools to go on at 7 p.m. as planned.

Years ago, Wednesdays marked the beginning of the garage sale "weekend ." There is definitely a trend at play here.

Olivet Nazarene University President John C. Bowling announced today that Dr. Dennis Crocker has been named as the University's new vice president of academic affairs.

Investigators continued their search into its sixth day Saturday, moving to the water in large part as they searched a river that runs through Ottawa, KS, as well as nearby creeks and ponds.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that it had called off plans to close 149 air traffic control towers.

Dan was born Jan. 2, 1921 in Breckenridge, Mo. to George Crutchley and Beulah Reed.

Hopes were crushed Thursday morning when authorities announced that they believed that Lana-Leigh Bailey is dead, and they are searching for her body.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says one of the three bodies found on a farm near Ottawa has been identified as a missing Olathe woman.

Harry Truman's belief in the power of neighborhood remains "highly relevant" in the 21st century, former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday in Kansas City.

In this photo provided by The Ottawa Herald a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy talks on a cell phone Monday, May 6, 2013, outsdie a farm where three bodies were found near Ottawa, Kan.

Ron and Willena Lawrence of Ft. Leavenworth,KS will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

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Tiffany Greens Golf Course hosted the Golf Channel Amateur Tour on Sunday May 5. The players were faced with a course that in the first week of May had endured freezing cold temperatures, rain and snow.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered four Olathe, KS-based trucking companies Royal Transport, Inc.; Nationwide, Inc.; Freight, Inc.; and Midwest A, Inc.

The city of Wichita has recently installed its first sharrows , at the intersection of W 21st St.

Yo-yo champions from multiple states descended on Topeka Saturday for the Third Annual Kansas State YoYo contest at the Kansas Children's Discovery Center.

Google has announced via their Google Fiber blog that they'll be expanding Google Fiber's presence around Kansas City futher.

Nothing sounds more early American than a banjo and the instrument lives in folk, country, bluegrass and other types of American music.

The Chestnut Fine Arts Center, in Olathe, KS, again features a top line up of shows guaranteed to please its devoted fan base and snag a few more season ticket holders along the way because of their line-up of Memory Lane favorites and performers who know how to please audiences.