The Escorts Motorcycle Club will host the first ever poker run fundraiser to benefit the Council on Aging’s Senior Express Transportation program on July 9. Registration will begin at 11 a.m. in the Council on Aging parking lot and “kickstands up” at noon.
The Leavenworth County Commission has allocated $5,000 to help pay for a program designed to prevent infant deaths in the county. The funding was requested by Maureen Hernandez, coordinator of Leavenworth County Infant-Toddler Services, which also is known as tiny-k.
Leavenworth officials are looking into a permanent memorial site for a teen who was killed last year by a hit-and-run driver, a city commissioner said. Miranda Lynch, 16, was killed Aug.
The United Way of Leavenworth County Board of Directors has announced the hiring of Bill Greenberg as executive director. Greenberg was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Duquesne University on an ROTC scholarship.
Our world is full of chaos and dissention. Separatism seems to be the word of the time. Forces seek to separate us from other countries, other groups of any kind, other people of different races, creeds and national origins. While no means a new phenomenon, it seems to have become more prevalent than any time in our recent past.
Leavenworth County Republican Women will hold their monthly luncheon meeting Monday at the Heritage Center, 109 Delaware St. in downtown Leavenworth. The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. and the program begins at noon.
The Leavenworth County Fire District No. 1 Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m.
A competency hearing for a Leavenworth man accused of murder has been continued because parties are still awaiting a report on an evaluation of the defendant. Ryan C.
About 20 students at a Michigan high school where four students were killed in a mass shooting say their constitutional rights to safety and education have been violated and that they want changes to ensure security at school, a law firm representing them said Friday.
Chiefs’ Mahomes ‘surprised’ by Hill criticism in podcast The Kansas City Chiefs long ago moved on from wide receiver Tyreek Hill, whom they shipped to the Miami Dolphins in the offseason for a package of draft picks that have helped them get younger and deeper across the board. Hill hasn’t quite done the same in Miami.