It appears an agreement may have been reached between Leavenworth County and Basehor officials regarding county funding for a 155th Street project. County commissioners voted last year to provide up to $2 million in funding to the city of Basehor for the project.
The Leavenworth Public Library will host a program about Fred Alexander and the lynchings in Leavenworth County on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Jahn Room.
When they met this week, a member of the Lansing Board of Education proposed a Parents Bill of Rights for the school district. But board member Amy Cawvey suggested the school board wait to take action until state legislators wrap up their 2022 session.
The Leavenworth High School JROTC program recently held its annual awards ceremony. Cadet Katherine Edwards receives the Rotary Service Award from Rotarian and state Rep. Pat Proctor. Rep. Pat Proctor
The door flings open and there in her sight is Jamal with tears running down his face. His mother quickly swerves on her heels and her heightened sixth sense kicks in recognizing this is the sound of her child in agonizing pain.
First-graders at Basehor’s Glenwood Ridge Elementary School got to experience the joy of a new life coming into the world by watching and waiting for chicken eggs to hatch in incubators placed in their classrooms. Each year, the school reaches out to families of students at the school to see if anyone has fertilized chicken eggs that they would allow students to watch and care for the eggs until the chickens hatched.
A judge has bound over the case of a woman who is facing murder and child endangerment charges for her alleged role in a 2021 incident in Leavenworth that resulted in the death of her 12-year-old brother.
The University of Saint Mary is one of 41 institutions selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2022 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. The institute is designed to strengthen institutional capacity to achieve quality, equity and student engagement goals through the design, implementation and assessment of active teaching and learning practices widely known as high-impact practices, or HIPs. The institute will be held virtually June 14–17.
The city of Leavenworth’s refuse service generally purchases more than 1 million garbage bags a year. But city commissioners voted this week to purchase only half of the usual amount because of an increase in cost.
Kansas governor signs bill phasing out grocery sales tax Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has signed into law a plan from Republican lawmakers to phase out the state’s sales tax on groceries over three years.