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Former Eisenhower High School basketball player is coming back to the Wichita area to coach a rival high school. Zach Bush has been named as the new head coach of the Maize Eagles boys basketball team.

This Saturday, there will be a showing of the movie “Sod and Stubble” at the Kansas Oil Museum. Doors will open for general admission ticket holders at 6:45 p.m., and the movie will begin at 7 p.m.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has released the names of the first group of winners in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Approximately 830 distinguished high school seniors have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards, financed by about 124 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.

From May 1954 Baccalaureate services at the school auditorium Sunday evening, May 10, will open the commencement week activities in the Conway Springs schools. The Rev.

From May 1948 The Ruse Hardware and Supply Co. store was sold in part to Mr.

8 Years Ago 3B’s Bar and Grill is now open at 8721 S. Broadway, in the former home of Char Broil House.

140 Years Ago The cost of repairing the highway bridge over the Ninnescah River near Cheney will be $280. The railroad bridge east of Cheney was repaired sufficiently by Saturday afternoon to allow trains to pass over running at a low rate of speed.

The USD 356 Conway Springs Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the district office.

GODDARD – Nearly 200 high school students from across Kansas packed into Culbertson Auditorium on April 14 for a day that blended fierce vocal competition with side-splitting musical theatre. The college hosted its first-ever Musical Theatre Singing Contest, followed by a matinee performance of “Urinetown: The Musical,” a hilarious, high-energy satire that had students laughing, cheering, and leaping to their feet at curtain call.

A giant American flag flies over Main Street in Cheney during the Cheney Fire Department’s annual car show on Saturday. The event serves as a fundraiser for the volunteer department. Wiley Phillips gets his face painted on Saturday. In addition to the car show, the Cheney Chamber of Commerce sponsors Celebrate Cheney, with face painting, bounce houses and other fun.