Silver Lake News

Hot topic: Proposals by Mayor Bill Bunten and council members Bill Haynes and Lana Kennedy to schedule a Nov.

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library board of directors recently adopted a 2009 budget with an 8 percent increase in salary expenses but no increase in its tax rate.

There were tears as one mother walked out the doors at Williams Science and Fine Arts Magnet School this morning on the first day of school.

La'Resha McCray felt every bit the new kid in school. Lacee Thomas and Jessica Hennessey have been roaming Tecumseh South Elementary School since kindergarten.

With the 2008-09 school year beginning for most area school districts, new Topeka USD 501 superintendent Kevin Singer will meet with parents and community members this week about the coming year.

The idea of placing the county's Consolidated Emergency Communications Center under the jurisdiction of the sheriff's office now has the blessing of the CECC Management Board and the Shawnee County Commission.

"Elephants never forget," the saying goes. That is why supporters of a local recycling effort held a news conference Friday at the elephant exhibit at the Topeka Zoo to urge the public to "remember" to turn in ...

Texas businessman T. Boone Pickens lit the fuse Wednesday on a national campaign to convince Americans to end their love affair with imported oil and embrace domestically produced wind and natural gas.

The number seemed unreal: $614. For a school district used to its property tax base - or assessed valuation - growing by millions of dollars each year, the figure stuck out to Shirley Martin, assistant to the ...

Question: St. Philip's Episcopal Church at 3860 S.E. California looks like it is abandoned, but that is where we have voted in local elections in past years.

The following animals have been brought to the Helping Hands Humane Society, 2625 N.W. Rochester Road.

I want to express my concern about the Topeka/Shawnee County Riverfront Authority's plans for development.

Hot topic: City manager Norton Bonaparte's proposed 2009 city budget, which he will present to the council early in Tuesday's meeting.

Four floors below Judge Matthew Dowd's courtroom, the mother hardly could believe the words she was reading.

Shawnee County Commissioners will wait 90 days before deciding whether to let the Silver Lake Fire Department build a fire station at N.W. 46th and Landon Road.

The Topeka Golden Giants picked a good time to explode offensively. After losing four out of their last five games and struggling at the plate all season, the Golden Giants came up with a season-high in runs ...

Area residents are walking around the clock to help raise money for cancer research.

The churned soil near Lake Sherwood doesn't hint at the edifice that soon will begin to take shape there.

Sheriff Dick Barta is asking that his office be chosen to run the Shawnee County Emergency Communications Center when current director Bill Singer retires July 31.

Topeka no longer is in a warning after emergency sirens blared in Shawnee County as severe weather passed through.