A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for sexually abusing children and later trying to have them killed. Steven M. Manczuk, 40, was sentenced Wednesday in…
Mark Rountree This weekend I woke up, willingly, at 5:50 a.m. This is highly unusual. For me to even consider waking up before 10 a.m. on one of my two…
John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times Even though a published deadline has passed, Leavenworth city officials are still accepting proposals for the redevelopment of a building at 312 Delaware St. “We’ll probably keep…
Staff report The intersection of Kansas 16 Highway and Parallel Road in southwest Leavenworth County has reopened to traffic. The intersection was closed in May for a project that included…
Jeremy Deckard Leavenworth Times Jon Orndorff enters his seventh season as head coach of the Tonganoxie Chieftains boys’ soccer team. Tonganoxie finished the 2022 season with a 7-9-1 record. They…
To the editor: We don’t like high taxes, especially if they are excessively high. A solution is to offset high taxes with increased revenue at the county and city level.…
John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times Two Leavenworth County commissioners got into an argument Wednesday that stemmed from cuts to the county’s 2024 operating budget that were approved last week. The verbal sparring…
Mark Rountree The great American political philosopher Richard Weaver used to say, “Ideas have consequences.” He was quite right. Ideas can have consequences for both good or evil. A tragic…
