EDITORa S NOTE: Each Friday, The Gazette salutes those who make Emporia and the surrounding area a better place to live and work.

Landlord and tenant found out they had more in common than they realized when the owners of Jimmy John's sandwich shop met this month with the owners of Granada Plaza and Lofts, where the shop is located.

Those words have kept him carving wood for the last 47 years. Carlan first developed his interest in wood carving during boy scouts and soon found that creativity ran in the family.

Emporia State University and the administration of President Michael Lane were found to be fiscally responsible in a management review released Thursday by the Kansas Board of Regents.

An audit in Kansas shows that the National Teachers Hall of Fame lost nearly $251,000 from 2006 through 2008.The audit, released Thursday by the Kansas Board of Regents, says the hall owes Emporia State University about $200,000 for salaries and expenses the university has covered.The regents oversee the state's higher education system, and the ...

Host homes are needed for international students during the Thanksgiving holiday, and a local man is reaching out to students who dona t have a place to go.

Alan Butler is the recipient of this yeara s Harold Durst Graduate Research Award from Emporia State University.

Jim McMullen, director of student services in the Olathe School District, has been selected as the first principal of Mission Trail Middle School.

ESU Theatre will present a live radio production of a oeIta s a Wonderful Lifea for the Emporia community.

Personnel from the Kansas Lottery will visit American Legion Post 5 from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday with a special offer for lottery players.

With all due respect to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, his address at Teachers College, Columbia University, at the end of October had a few things wrong - namely that not all teacher preparation programs are failing.

Kansas City, MO - infoZine - Pat Lawson taught English at Kansas City Kansas Community College for many years.

Join Estes Park Museum manager/curator of exhibits, Derek Fortini, at 200 Fourth St.

The former school leader in Abilene and Lindsborg, Kan., will become the next superintendent of the 27,000-student Olathe School District July 1.Marlin Berry, the districts assistant superintendent for general administration, was selected Thursday by the school board to succeed the current superintendent, Pat All, when she retires next year.Berry ...

An Emporia State University student who had not been seen since Sunday has been found dead after an apparent motorcycle accident.

An Emporia State University All-American track athlete who'd been missing since Sunday was found dead Wednesday night.

The challenge of scientific research is that much of the time, the experiments fail.

If confidence in public schools weren't already precarious enough, it was further shaken by remarks made by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a speech delivered at Columbia's Teachers College on Oct.

Emporia State University and the ESU Foundation are pleased to announce a $150,000 gift from retired Brig.

From spooky activities to alternatives offered by local churches, there will be a lot to do this Halloween season in and around Emporia.