Leavenworth County Commission Chairman Mike Smith, center, presents a gift card to Lyric Yost, a Tonganoxie High School sophomore, as other county commissioners look on. The gift card was presented in recognition of Yost’s design for a county challenge coin. Her design features a drawing of the Buffalo Soldier Monument at Fort Leavenworth. Also pictured are Commissioners Doug Smith, Jeff Culbertson, Vicky Kaaz and Mike Stieben. John Richmeier
The famed evangelist, Rev. Billy Graham, was once asked by a friend to give his opinion. “I know that every church has its faults,” his friend said, “but what would you say a perfect church would look like? I moved to a new city recently, and I’d like to find a church that is as close to the ideal as possible.”
The Kiwanis Club of Leavenworth made a special check presentation to Vicki Lozenski, right, local volunteer coordinator for Leavenworth County Special Olympics. Cindy Henry .
Carl Johnson, past president of the Lansing Kiwanis Club, accepted the club’s part of the cash tips from helping Kiwanis Club of Leavenworth run a couple of concession stands at Kansas Speedway last weekend. Cindy Henry
First United Methodist Church of Leavenworth recently presented a check for over $10,000 to the Alliance Against Family Violence. Shown, from left, are Pastor Dave York, Alliance Executive Director Michael Trapp, Alliance grant writer Katie Irvin and Alliance board member and state Rep. Pat Proctor. Rep. Pat Proctor
A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece.
Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead.
A Democratic state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for a formal investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday’s primary by weeks in the state’s third-largest county, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance.
Kansas police: Road rage led to fatal parking lot shootout A prolonged road rage incident involving two vehicles led to a shootout in a Lawrence grocery store parking lot that killed two men, police there said. The incident happened Tuesday night when the driver of a sport utility vehicle and the occupants of a pickup truck interacted and argued over the truck’s loud tailpipe.
Poppies have been coming up for more than 70 years in this same location in Matt Nowak’s garden in Lansing. Matt Nowak Do you have a photo to share with the Times? Email the photo and information to MRountree@cherryroad.com .