Former Leavenworth Assistance Center selling off items
The Leavenworth Assistance Center did not reopen after closing during the COVID-19 pandemic. And now items from the center’s thrift shop as well as other things from the building are being sold.
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Generations of Missouri
An Elephant and A Bridge Chapter Three Sarah, age 25 & Mary, age 6 months | 1874 Sarah joined crowds of people heading along the cobblestones on their way to the Mississippi River on this warm June day. At 25, she was married to a lawyer, was a mother, and lived in St.
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Kansas: What to expect on election night
Republicans have long enjoyed a voter registration advantage in Kansas; a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t carried the state since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and former President Donald Trump carried it by big margins in 2016 and 2020. Yet the electorate also can have a sizeable number of independent and moderate GOP voters, and voters in August decisively rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have allowed the GOPcontrolled Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion. That scrambled the national conversation on the issue.
Howards, Zeck face each other for state school board
Democrat Jeff Howards and Republican Danny Zeck, both of Leavenworth, are facing each other in the race for the 1st District of the Kansas State Board of Education. The 1st District has an open seat this year because of redistricting.
Picking up the tempo
Spires add six freshmen, three transfers to men’s wrestling program While the Saint Mary men’s wrestling team returns a conference champion and two runners-up, the Spires lineup will mostly be full of fresh faces this season. “For us, it’s kind of a restart for our program,” Saint Mary coach Chuck Kearney said during KCAC Media Day.
Spires qualify for KCAC tournament
The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference soccer playoffs are here. The No.
Army probes whether troops wrongly targeted in bonus scandal
Years after about 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were swept up in a recruiting bonus scandal, U.S. Army investigators are reviewing the cases and correcting records because some individuals were wrongly blamed and punished, The Associated Press has learned.
Zeck will advocate for parents, students
To the editor: I remember when I first read an article in The Lion about Danny Zeck, candidate for Kansas Board of Educaton, District 1. I thought it was courageous how Mr. Zeck stood up in front of the Leavenworth school board and confronted them over the sex-ed curriculum being taught to students.
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