Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the omicron variant’s hold is weakening across the country. Total confirmed cases reported Saturday barely exceeded 100,000, a sharp downturn from around 800,850 five weeks ago on Jan.
The streets around the Canadian Parliament are quiet now. The Ottawa protesters who vowed never to give up are largely gone, chased away by police in riot gear. The relentless blare of truckers’ horns has gone silent.
Dear Amy: “Julie” and I have been friends for about 13 years, ever since we were college roommates. It was originally a good relationship, but for about the past eight years, she has been absolutely miserable.
I’m not sure if it’s the local realtors or what, but for some reason, there seems to be an emphasis in this area for people to have those perfect grassy lawns. As if you are not doing your neighborhood right if you don’t have a perfect lawn, especially in the front yard.
To the editor: Thanks to the Leavenworth Times for the article about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. Every member of the military who has served away from home knows what it means to receive a letter from home.
They did it – that much seems obvious. But what, exactly, was the “it” that they did? China pulled off a logistically adept Olympics with very few mechanical glitches – no small affair in the pandemic era.
Sandra Day O’Connor was nervous when she joined the Supreme Court in 1981 as the nation’s first female justice. “It’s all right to be the first to do something, but I didn’t want to be the last woman on the Supreme Court,” O’Connor said in 2012.
Betty Ann East, 85, of Leavenworth, KS passed away peacefully on February 17,2022. A devoted Mother, Grandmother, and friend to many she was loved by all. Betty was predeceased by her Husband Thomas B. East, her parents Waldo and Florence Briggs, sister Florence (Bridget) Poe, daughter Deborah Ruby-Hack and two granddaughters Elizabeth and Amanda. Two sons in law also preceded her. She is survived by Brother, Leon (Carolyn) Briggs and daughters Nancy Aldridge and Peggy (Elmer) Colon, 8 Grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Hannah Nicole Schmidt, 21, Leavenworth, passed away on February 16, 2022. Davis Funeral Chapel.
Phyllis Louise Edwards, 87, of Kansas City, MO, passed away Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at her home. .