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November 3, 2015
- Face to Face is a weekly feature in which the Signal introduces readers to those who live and work in the community. This week, we meet Annette Pierce.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 3, 2015
- Howard Jehle is one of three surviving World War II veterans in the Baldwin City community, but he doesn’t have exciting war stories to relate.
“I joined the Army to see the world,” he said. “I saw Oklahoma. You went where they told you to go, or at least you did if you knew what was good for you.”
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 27, 2015
- In a sign of its continuing transition from a commercial center to an office district, two growing local businesses have recently occupied downtown storefronts.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 26, 2015
- Words about his new novel are hard to coax from 13-year-old Ty Harris.
“He’s shy,” his mother Sarah Harris said. “He doesn’t like to talk that much.”
It’s different when putting words to paper, especially when his mind is consumed with a new plot idea.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 26, 2015
- The Baldwin City Council approved Oct. 19 a development plan that would allow Kwik Shop to install addition gas pumps in now vacant lot to the west.
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Karen Dillon
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October 23, 2015
- An 8-year-old girl who was playing in the back of a Bradley fighting vehicle at the Maple Leaf Festival Sunday received first-degree burns when at least one fire suppressant canister discharged and sprayed her, officials told the Lawrence Journal-World.
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October 21, 2015
- Face to Face is a weekly feature in which the Signal introduces readers to those who live and work in the community. This week we meet Danielle Engle.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 17, 2015
- Baldwin City — As the last marchers in the hourlong Maple Leaf Festival Parade were making the north turn at Sixth and High streets at noon Saturday, Sherry Johnson was taking a final minute of rest.
“It’s coming,” she said. “Once the parade’s over, they’ll be here.”
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 15, 2015
- Baldwin City Public Works employees won’t have much time the second week in October for routine maintenance tasks.
The week before the Oct. 16, 17 and 18 Maple Leaf Festival the city’s public work employees will take the lead in transforming Baldwin City from a college town of about 5,000 into a destination shopping mecca that attracts from 30,000 to 40,000 visitors.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 15, 2015
- Of the Maple Leaf Festival’s many associated activities, few are as long-standing as the Maple Leaf Quilt Guild’s Quilt annual quilt show.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 15, 2015
- The Maple Leaf Festival offers visitors plenty of opportunities to satisfy their hunger. There are food stands offering the usual festival fair of funnel cakes, kettle corn, walking tacos, brats, barbecue, hamburgers and the always popular turkey legs from Baker University’s Kappa Sigma fraternity.
The most visually striking food booth is that of the Baker University baseball team, located just east of the Baldwin City Post Office on Seventh Street.
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October 15, 2015
- Face to Face is a weekly feature in which the Signal introduces readers to those who live and work in the community. This week we meet Bruce Eveland or the Kansas Belle Dinner Train.
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October 13, 2015
- The Baldwin City chapter of the Business and Professional Women announced the selections of Robin Goff as its 2015 Baldwin City Community Woman of the Year and the Kansas Belle as its 2015 Baldwin City Business of the Year.
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October 13, 2015
- Face to Face is a weekly feature in which the Signal introduces readers to those who live and work in the community. This week, we meet new Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce office manager Jeannette Blackmar.
