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Saying she was driven to apply her deep experience in public policy to the challenges facing the Shawnee Mission School District, Trailwood Elementary parent Jessica Hembree last week filed as a candidate for the SM South area seat on...

Most high school seniors are thinking about their diplomas, picking up summer jobs or internships, and making post-graduate plans for college or a career. For SM South's Yuliana Santibanez, senior year was made even busier by pursuit of her U.S....

This school year marks the 40th anniversary of the Shawnee Mission South band’s exchange program with a music school in Germany. SM South band students greeted their German counterparts last night at the high school, two days before their joint...

For the second year in a row, Shawnee Mission South students have claimed the title of Kansas State Eco-Meet champions. Two student teams from SM South placed in this year's competition. One team earned first place and another earned third...

A group of Shawnee Mission high school football players have been honored by league coaches as members of this year's All Sunflower League Football teams. First and Second team honorees from each Shawnee Mission School are: SM East P.J. Spencer, First...

For the past two weeks, culinary students at all of the Shawnee Mission high schools have been hard at work around Broadmoor Bistro. Up to the day before Thanksgiving, they’re baking and cooking dishes and desserts from scratch and...

SM West's Nick Shipp is the 2018 All Sunflower Defender of the Year and SM South's Wiley Kirk is the Goalkeeper of the Year. Shipp and Kirk are the top two local honorees in this year's All Sunflower boys soccer...

The Shawnee Mission South community this week is mourning the loss of Chandan Rajanna, a 17-year-old student who was set to graduate from the school this May. Rajanna was riding in a car on the way to Arrowhead Stadium for...

When someone is inducted into a hall of fame, that typically means he or she is either retired or long gone. But Bernadette Wagner, a gymnastics and track coach in the Shawnee Mission School District, is neither of those things....

This year’s Raiders 5K fundraiser marks a few significant dates in Shawnee Mission school history. Shawnee Mission South High School is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its foreign exchange program with a music school in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany. That same city...

Shawnee Mission South High School's 2018 homecoming parade was an excellent kickoff to the weekend's festivities. Lots of smiles, shouts and laughter. If you missed it, no worries. We've got you covered with our Facebook livestream of the parade. Check...

Rising SM South sophomore Chase Horner was in social studies class this past winter when teacher Joseph Laurenzo began discussing the water crisis being faced by the people of Cape Town, South Africa. For three years, drought has sapped the...