The Warren Middle School marching band will be the official band of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Thursday. According to Jaye George, Warren Middle School band director, the band consists of 150 students from sixth through eighth grade.
Jameson Murray Johnson is shown with his mother, Meg, at the annual Irish Stew Dinner on Monday at the Riverfront Community Center. The event, hosted by the Leavenworth Rotary Club, featured vast amounts of green beer.
The 1974 elections were a major victory for the Democratic Party. In the U.S. Senate, the party gained four seats, and in the U.S. House of Representatives, it gained 49 seats. It also had a net gain of four governor’s seats.
Basehor-Linwood ran right through the United Kansas Conference, finishing a perfect 10-0, and the league’s coaches took notice. Senior Carter Bergman was voted the UKC Boys Basketball Player of the Year after averaging 13.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2 steals per game while shooting 47 percent from the floor.
Dear Amy: I am petite. While it would be great to be a foot taller, I have accepted that it isn’t going to happen.
The 39th annual Leavenworth St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held Thursday at noon in downtown Leavenworth.
Clarissa Ward interrupted her live TV report on Ukrainian refugees to help a distraught older man, then a woman, down a steep and explosion-mangled path, gently urging them on in their language. A day later, Lynsey Addario, a photographer for The New York Times, captured a grim image of a Russian mortar attack’s immediate outcome: the bodies of a mother and her two children crumpled on a road, amid their suitcase, backpacks and a pet carrier.
Last Saturday, March 5, my wife and I were watching the evening news. Suddenly, a small box with the word “Irpin” appeared on the screen. It was a kick in the gut because my wife had spent two nights in the home of Ukrainian friends in Irpin. I know some of those people.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs agreed to a three-year, $31.5 million contract with safety Justin Reid, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, likely ending Tyrann Mathieu’s time with Kansas City.