Crucial vote awaits in August primary
To the editor: Signs are popping up all over Leavenworth. “Vote NO!” “Vote YES!” What does it all mean? On Aug.
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Ideas on mute? Study: Remote meetings dampen brainstorming
Video meetings dampen brainstorming because we are so hyper-focused on the face in that box that we don’t let our eyes and minds wander as much, a new study found. Staring isn’t good for creativity.
Lions win Leavenworth Invitational
Led by dominating performances from its No. 1 and No.
HOOP DREAMS
With 45 minutes to impress Wichita State men’s basketball coach Isaac Brown, Trevor McBride wasn’t nervous. A coach’s kid who had played organized basketball since the second grade, McBride had long dreamed of this opportunity.
After a nearly 20-year absence, bell choir plays again at Easter service
After a 17-year absence and just six weeks of rehearsal, a handbell choir returned to play during the combined congregation Easter service April 17 at Pioneer Chapel on Fort Leavenworth. Handbell choir director Kathy Kem, Religious Services Organization Protestant parish coordinator, said the handbells were purchased in 1964, a year before Pioneer Chapel was completed.
Book banning battles in Kansas schools
State Sen. Rick Kloos waded into the cultural warfare fray on Facebook last week by calling for the Shawnee Heights High School superintendent to remove the book “Gender Queer” from the school library.
Russia cuts off gas to 2 NATO nations in bid to divide West
Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday and threatened to do the same to other countries, using its most essential export in what was seen as a bid to punish and divide the West over its support for Ukraine.
McCarthy defends 1/6 audio, House GOP backs ‘next speaker’
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told colleagues Wednesday he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol as he defended private conversations around the siege that have spilled into the open and jeopardized his leadership.
Volatile relationship benefits from separation
Dear Amy: I am a 35-year-old professional woman, recently separated from my husband of nine years. Our marriage has been rife with volatility due to his uncontrollable anger and my tumultuous relationship with alcohol during our relationship.
Recognizing flaws and coming together in spite of them
If I could show my sixth-grade self something shocking, a strong contender would be the relationship that I currently have with my parents. In 2011 we moved from Fort Leavenworth, where I could play with all my friends until the streetlights came on, to the county, where I had neither friends nor streetlights. I hated my parents for making this necessary choice. I vowed that if I didn’t run away, I would at least go to college someday and never come back.