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When the Basehor Cabinet Shop caught fire on a hot summer day in 2001, it left members of the Fairmount Township Fire Department exhausted from fighting the fire and a big mess to be cleaned up. After a FTFD firefighter contacted his daughter and asked her to bring some friends to help with the clean-up, the department saw the value in starting a program that allowed high school students to lend extra hands with tasks around the station as well as a way to recruit potential volunteer firefighters.

People entering the Leavenworth County Courthouse to take advantage of advance voting will still have to pass through a security check. Signs have been posted at the public entrances to the courthouse indicating “voting participants must pass through security.” The security checkpoints, which include airport-style metal detectors and X-ray machines to inspect bags, have been in place at the courthouse since last year.

Leavenworth County commissioners decided not to approve a requested letter of support for a proposed national bicycle route that would pass through the county. Commissioners expressed concern about the roads in the county that were selected for the route.

Merle Leon Brown was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Dec. 9, 1925.

A case is being forwarded to prosecutors for review after a student at Richard Warren Middle School allegedly posted a school shooting threat on social media, a police spokesman said. Deputy Police Chief Dan Nicodemus said the Leavenworth Police Department was contacted earlier this week by the FBI.

Once each quarter, Superintendent Dan Wessel, Director of Teaching and Learning Miles Azzeh and Director of Communications and Marketing Sharon Burns visit each building in the Lansing school district to thank each staff member in person for their work to keep district schools running smoothly. The tour was held after parent- teacher conferences this fall.