Planning and zoning
To the editor: I want to thank you for taking this time to allow public input regarding the Comprehensive Plan. I am a proponent of controlled growth while maintaining Leavenworth County as a mostly rural community.
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Designers review ideas for Fourth Street project
While it is a state highway, Fourth Street should be a gateway to downtown Leavenworth and not a barrier. That is according to Marty Shukert with RDG Planning and Design.
In Breyer’s tenure, court shifts more conservative
WASHINGTON – In the nearly 30 years that Justice Stephen Breyer has spent on the Supreme Court, it has been conservative, then more conservative and now much more conservative. The court’s rapid rightward shift in recent years was a change for the liberal jurist, who early in his career sat with the same group of eight other justices for more than a decade.
Pittsburgh bridge collapse injures 10
PITTSBURGH – A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet while others formed a human chain to help rescue occupants of a dangling bus. The collapse came hours before President Joe Biden was to visit the city to press for his $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes bridge maintenance.
RIVER DEBRIS
Low water level of the Missouri River exposes debris near the Centennial Bridge in Leavenworth. Do you have a photo that you would like to share with the Times? Email your photo and cutline information to MRountree@cherryroad.com
California museum returns remains to Wiyot Tribe
LOS ANGELES – The most vulnerable members of the Wiyot Tribe were asleep the morning of Feb. 26, 1860, when a band of white men slipped into their Northern California villages under darkness and slaughtered them.
City, county feel pinch of inflation
Like private citizens, local governments are feeling the pinch of inflation. The effect of inflation is being seen in bids being submitted for projects.
ADOPT A PET
Freya is 8 years old, spayed, vaccinated and microchipped. She is available for adoption at Leavenworth Animal Control. She is trained and knows the sit command. She would do best with an owner who can keep up with brushing her long hair. Leavenworth Animal Control is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except holidays. CAROL TURNER
Jesus asks us to remain awake with him
“Could you not stay awake with me one hour?” Jesus asks his sleeping disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane. Worn out by the pace of events, unable to bear Jesus’ predictions of what was to come, they simply fell asleep. And he needed them to stay awake.
Teen injured in crash near Tenganoxie
A teen was taken to the hospital after his vehicle crashed into a culvert near Tonganoxie, according to an official with the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office. The crash was reported at 3:40 p.m.