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Locals making good

Leawood native and 2016 SM East graduate Joey Wentz will take the mound as the starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers as they face the Royals at Kauffman Stadium tonight. Making the case for 2023 rotation spot: Detroit Tigers manager...
Grace Sharkey was first introduced to the sport of competitive cup stacking in gym class as a first grader at Belinder Elementary. It didn't interest her too much. "I kind of put the cups away in first grade," she said....
By Ellen Terhune After missing nearly all of the 2018 season, anticipation filled the 70-degree Scottsdale air as Riley Pint made his return to the mound for the Colorado Rockies first minor league class A spring training game of 2019. But...
A member of the SM East baseball team that won the state 6A title in 2016 had a pretty exciting Thursday. Jake Randa, who for the past two years has played at Northwest Florida State College, was selected by the...
Zane Meeks, the Prairie Village native who transferred from SM East to the Brewster Academy in New Hampshire to play basketball his senior year, announced this week that he's committed to the University of Nevada for college. Meeks, who was...
Erin Smith, the 2018 SM West graduate who has attracted national attention for her pioneering work on the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, has again found herself in elite company. And about a decade ahead of the other honorees. Smith is...
Six weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, thousands of the U.S. territory's residents are still without electricity and clean water. A 1997 graduate of SM East and his girlfriend, a star of a reality series American Pickers on...
There was a reason dozens of pro scouts crowded around the backstop cage on the Shawnee Mission East baseball field last year to get a look at Joey Wentz. The 6'5" lefty was putting up numbers at the high school...
It's safe to say that it was a pretty good weekend for Prairie Village native Beth Wang. Not only did the Princeton University junior get a chance to come home for a few days, but she also had the opportunity...
Four years after she graduated from Shawnee Mission East, Prairie Village native Addie Steiner is working to take her soccer career to the professional level. Steiner attended her first three years of college at Northwestern, where she was twice named...
Steve Ewert and Dick Russell were childhood friends growing up in northeast Johnson County, and graduated together from Shawnee Mission East in 1965. Five years later, Russell, who had landed a job writing for Sports Illustrated, talked Ewert into taking...
The approximately 175 members of NASA’s Curiosity Rover team are responsible for bringing humanity images of a planet 249 million miles away from Earth. Two of the members of that team happen to have grown up about a mile...