To the editor:One of the high points of my year is working on the annual United Way fundraising campaign. I enjoy being a volunteer for a cause that sees immediate life-changing results. We come together as a county to support 20 local agencies as we tackle difficult problems. So many of our ...
Every 10 years, the Kansas Legislature is required to redraw boundaries for all congressional, legislative and State Board of Education districts. This is necessary as populations shift significantly over the course of a decade. Every ten years, like clockwork, this exercise becomes so muddled ...
WANT MORE?Read more about the Tonganoxie High football team’s hectic week and get other tidbits from the team’s opener on The Mirror’s sports blog, Sports Supplement.Imagine being a football player preparing for the first game of the season.There are just a few precious practices left to ...
To the editor:Thank you to the Magnificent Seven, an open letter to the staff of the Tonganoxie Public Library.When Royce Kitts resigned as our director in June we knew we would need to rely on you to fill the gap until we could select and hire a new director. And you did not disappoint ...
To the editor:As a grandmother in charge of the care of her grandchildren after school, I feel compelled to address the parking/pickup/dropoff at the elementary school. I have raised 2 children of my own, so I understand and even expected confusion and chaos the first week of school and was not ...
It seems people outside agriculture routinely try to define the family farm. In our contemporary society this means people one or two generations removed from the land who live in sprawling suburbia.Today, men and women whose great-grandfathers or grandfathers worked the fields with mules and ...
According to the U.S. Department of Education, only a third of Kansas students are proficient in reading and roughly one out of four are functionally illiterate. You might expect that education officials would welcome an opportunity to examine what other states are doing to address these ...
To the editor:I found it refreshing to see that the Leavenworth County Commission has done everything possible to help hold down the mill levy increase for 2012 by eliminating what it calls things too expensive to pay for.I can only pray that includes any more thoughts for an airport in ...
It’s Leavenworth County Fair time through the weekend.This is the 85th year for our fair, so Kansas was only 65 years old when we had our first fair. That was in 1926 and a bumper crop of corn was the big drawing card. The following year highlighted corn and apples. It was not known as the ...
To the editor:I saw this on Facebook and I know that not everyone looks at that, so I wanted to share this with you:Don’t like gay marriages? Don’t get one.Don’t like cigarettes? Don’t smoke them.Don’t like abortions? Don’t get one.Don’t like sex? Don’t have it.Don’t like ...