Tonganoxie resident and country music performing artist Joey Glenn keeps a busy schedule performing throughout the year.And as she’s singing her music, she’s also working to help military personnel — past and present — as well as their families and to honor those who have passed.Glenn ...
Tonganoxie American Legion Post No. 41 will move its meeting place. The building on Laming Road where the organization has been meeting has been sold. As a temporary solution, the post has made arrangements to meet at Elle’s Diner on U.S. Highway 24-40. The next meeting for the Post will be ...
Fort Leavenworth paid honors Tuesday to Staff Sgt. Jeremy Katzenberger, who was killed in Paktika, Afghanistan.There was a motor cortege through the fort and services took place in the Frontier Chapel. Graveside services took place at the National Cemetery at the fort.Katzenberger, 26, of ...
Staff Sgt. Max Rees wandered through a Wisconsin forest at 4 a.m. last week, no other people in sight. He was glad to be there.Rees was searching for six wooden posts with the help of a map, compass and Army-issued GPS device as part of a six-hour navigation exercise that started at 3:15 a.m. ...
This Fourth of July, one Fort Leavenworth family will have its eyes on another date, a date that will bring the end of time-zone calculations, online video chats and traced outlines of growing children shipped overseas: the Fifth of August. Their husband and father, Army Maj. Joseph Hammond, ...
Tonganoxie American Legion Post No. 41 will hold its annual membership picnic starting at noon Saturday at the Post Headquarters at Laming and Commerce roads in Tonganoxie in the Urban Hess Business Center. Members are encouraged to bring their families and a side dish or dessert. Hamburgers ...
When the economy slowed down and construction jobs started drying up, Warren K. Parker had an idea for getting more business. Pretend to be a wounded war hero, create a company called Silver Star Construction and bid on jobs reserved for companies owned by true service-disabled veterans, ...
Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey will speak to more than 1,000 students — including 69 international officers and 10 from other government agencies — graduating from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Intermediate Level Education Course on Friday at Fort ...
Although they assembled Monday atop the Interstate 70 overpass at Leavenworth County Road 1 to greet a specific group, the 15 members of the Tonganoxie American Legion Post 41 Riders nonetheless welcomed the frequent horn blasts from other motorists passing below.“That’s what it’s all ...
Army Col. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., director of the School of Advanced Military Studies at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.President Barack Obama nominated Grigsby for the promotion, which was ...
