The annual Leavenworth Easter Egg Hunt will return after a two-year break due to the pandemic. “This is the first year since 2019,” said Nancy Baker, recreation supervisor at the Leavenworth Parks and Recreation Department.
The U.S. labor movement has been in decline for several decades. Currently, only 10.3% of the workforce is unionized. The only area where unions have been holding their own in recent years is with the unions of public employees.
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Since the pandemic started, experts have warned of a mental health crisis facing American children that is now visibly playing out at schools across the country. Benito Luna-Herrera, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Southern California, tells of middle school students whose post-pandemic depression led them to thoughts of suicide.
In a national championship game nobody at Kansas will soon forget, Bill Self went from the Hall of Fame coach who far too often failed on the big stage to the brilliant mastermind of the biggest comeback in NCAA title-game history.
Athletes from Lansing and Basehor-Linwood will represent Kansas in the 2022 DiRenna All-Star Games. The Kansas versus Missouri girls and boys basketball games, featuring some of the top high school players from the greater Kansas City area, will be played on Friday at Shawnee Mission South High School.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Great Kansas Comeback, as it will forever be known in the history books, is about more than just one stifling, scintillating 20-minute stretch of Jayhawks basketball. The championship KU captured Monday night traced its roots back to 2020, when the Jayhawks were a team that looked very much on track for the program’s fourth national title.
Muriel Jean (Oliver) Reiley, 90, passed away Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at North Kansas City Hospital. A visitation will be held 12:00-1:00 p.m., Saturday, A visitation will be held 12:00-1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 9, 2020, at Rollins Funeral Home in Platte City, MO; followed by a 1:00 p.m.
Richard “Dick” Jackson, 75 years of age, passed away, Saturday, March 26, 2022, at Providence Medical Center. He was born Aug. 31, 1946, in La Junta, Colo., to the late Keithel and Frances Jackson.
Stanley Wilber, 88, of Leavenworth, died Sunday, March 27, 2022. He was born May 2, 1933, in Weston, Mo., to Philanthropy and Lena (Large) Wilber.