There is something upside down in this country, according to one of the men who spoke Saturday at a rally in Leavenworth.

“One community, one goal.”

That’s the theme Superintendent Kelly Harris has chosen this year for the Leavenworth public schools.
 

With the primary having established the final ballot, candidates for state and local offices participated in a forum Thursday at the Heritage Center.
 

The Leavenworth Preservation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to deny a church’s request for a permit to demolish the old East Middle School building.

A former U.S. senator from Nebraska visited Leavenworth Tuesday to announce his endorsement for a man running for attorney general of Kansas.

A man was arrested after he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman Monday afternoon at a Lansing residence, a police spokesman said.

A man has pleaded no contest to a 2009 attempted murder in Leavenworth.
Stanley J. Cason, 32, entered the plea Friday afternoon in Leavenworth County District Court.

The third annual Jazz by the River in Leavenworth is promising to be about more than music.

Their students won’t arrive until after Labor Day, but teachers in the Leavenworth public school system have returned to work.

Voters in Leavenworth and Atchison counties will have a chance to decide whether they want to elect district court judges instead of having them appointed by the governor.

When they met Tuesday, Leavenworth City Commissioners provided a consensus to move forward with ordinance changes impacting law enforcement and traffic.

Beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, the Leavenworth Public Library will be closed for two weeks while several repairs and upgrades are completed.

The yearlong wait for a new interchange in the northern end of the city of Leavenworth is almost over.
 

The owner of the old East Middle School building has requested permission to demolish the structure.

When Leavenworth city commissioners met Tuesday, they voted to accept additional money as part of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. They also authorized contracts for the construction of four new homes as part of the NSP.

When they met Monday, members of the Leavenworth Board of Education approved the school district’s 2010-2011 budget as well as a contract agreement with the local teachers union.

Inmates overpowered a staff member and locked him in a shower area Thursday night at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, according to a news release from Fort Leavenworth.

More than 150 soldiers returned to Fort Leavenworth Thursday night after a year-long deployment in Iraq.

The Command and General Staff College’s most recent class of students has already arrived and members of the 705th Military Police Battalion are scheduled to arrive on Fort Leavenworth soon.

Some results are in for Kansas state assessment tests — and Leavenworth School District administrators are feeling good.