The Leavenworth County Council on Aging has two pet programs to assist qualifying seniors with their pets. The Pets & Loving Seniors program (PALS) provides pet food as well as cat litter. The Pet-2-Vet program assists participants with veterinary care.
Lisa Schmidt, executive director of the Women’s Community Y, was the guest speaker for the Kiwanis Club of Leavenworth weekly luncheon. PROVIDED BY CINDY HENRY .
RENO COUNTY, Kansas – A Kansas woman lost both her fiance and her 13- year-old son in a five-vehicle crash that took place in Reno County on Friday. The Wichita Eagle reports that Lacy Lomax was supposed to marry Alexander Dennis next month and her son Teagan Lomax was set to be one of the groomsmen, but now both are dead.
• The Leavenworth City Commission will meet at 6 p.m. today at Leavenworth City Hall, 100 N.
The Henry Leavenworth chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution presented Sharlet Untereiner, Regina Buttron, Kathy Stafford, Rex Loewen, Tommy Herken and Bryan Herken with the SAR Bronze Good Citizenship Medal. They earned the medal for contributions to the community. Shown are Untereiner, Buttron, Loewen, Tommy Herken, Bryan Herken and Kansas SAR Society Eastern Vice President John Schatzel. Not pictured is Stafford. PROVIDED BY WALT SCHLEY
Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow firework sales year-round, a move that could help small businesses and the state’s coffers collect more revenue. The Senate Commerce Committee held a Tuesday hearing on Senate Bill 378, which expands the existing season for firework sales around the Fourth of July while also permitting year-round retail sales.
The pandemic was always going to affect Kansas' plan to eventually graduate 95% of its high school students, but education leaders are starting to get the first widespread picture of exactly how COVID has affected high schoolers' academic careers.
Kansas cotton producers are proposing that lawmakers create a prevention program for boll weevils, an insect that could decimate a crop of growing importance to the state’s agricultural economy. Boll weevils are a beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers.
When they meet tonight, Leavenworth city commissioners may approve a charter ordinance that will allow the city manager to appoint a new judge for Leavenworth Municipal Court. If the ordinance is approved, it will still be subject to a 60-day protest period before going into effect.
A woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for stabbing a man 11 times last year in Leavenworth, according to a prosecution official. Becky L.