Board hears presentation on RHIDs
When they met this week, Leavenworth Board of Education members listened to a presentation about reinvestment housing incentive districts.
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Traffic lights in flash mode after last week’s storm
Traffic lights at the intersection of Main and Mary streets in Lansing remained in a flashing mode Tuesday morning.
City begins Eisenhower resurfacing project
Road resurfacing work is scheduled to begin today on Eisenhower Road between U.S. 73-Kansas 7 Highway and Shrine Park Road.
Public hearing slated about proposed development
Riverbend Heights, a proposed development near McIntyre Road and 131st Street, was back on the Lansing City Council’s agenda again last week, but only to establish a public hearing for July 17.That public hearing will involve a resolution to establish the 146 acres as a Reinvestment Housing Incentive District. City Administrator Tim Vandall said the developer proposed pulling the item from the agenda at a meeting last month “to have more dialogue with the stakeholders.
Weekend storm produces additional inch of rain
Leavenworth County received about an additional one inch of rain over the weekend.
Plans for Lansing Aquatic Center opening remain tentative
Lansing officials were still planning Monday to open the city's new aquatic center this weekend, but they acknowledged the plans are still tentative.
More than 950 graduate from fort
More than 950 people graduated Friday from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.
Kansas measles cases at 71 with three hospitalizations
Kansas measles cases rose to 71 and were found in 11 counties in south-central and southwest Kansas, the state reported Wednesday.Sixty-nine cases are associated with the outbreak in southwest Kansas, where three hospitalizations have also been reported, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment dashboard.Counties where measles have been reported are Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kiowa, Morton, Pawnee, Reno, Sedgwick and Stevens. Gray has the most cases with 25 and is part of what is considered the outbreak, in which transmission is connected to other cases within an area.
Main Street hosts Moonlight Market and Summer Concert
The Leavenworth Main Street Program will be kicking off a summer concert series this evening with an event called Moonlight Market and Summer Concert.
Leavenworth landmark lost to history
Local residents have recently witnessed the demolition of an historic landmark, older than the state of Kansas itself, at Third and Cherokee streets in downtown Leavenworth. What once was considered a magnificent three-story structure with basement, structurally supported by brick arches and wooden beams, was built well over a century and a half ago and now preserved only through anecdotes, memories and photographs that date back to the late 1850s.