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Active COVID-19 cases mostly down throughout Leavenworth County

Leavenworth County is seeing a drop in active cases by about 50 from the previous week’s numbers, the health department reported Monday.LCHD reported that there were 189 active cases as of Monday afternoon, a drop from 240 cases as of the previous weekly report released Aug. 23.The latest ...

Rural Leavenworth, Inc., to host volunteer festival

Rural Leavenworth, Inc. is having a volunteer festival this month.The event will be noon-2 p.m. Sept. 11 at Leavenworth County Fire District 1’s Station No. 2 at 25115 187th St., Leavenworth.The festival will showcase the many nonprofit organizations and agencies that provide volunteer ...

Leavenworth County setting at 222 active COVID-19 cases

The Leavenworth County Health Department is monitoring 240 active cases as of Monday.There were 244 new positive cases and 222 community recoveries from Aug. 16 to Monday, according to LCHD statistics.Of the new cases, 209 involved unvaccinated people and 35 involved vaccinated residents.Four ...

Next Tonganoxie City Council meeting to fall on a Tuesday

Tonganoxie City Council next will meet on Sept. 7.The Council normally meets the first and third Monday of each month, but the governing body will meet on a Tuesday next month because the first Monday is Labor Day and city offices are closed that day.Council meetings take place at the new ...

Leavenworth County reports 5 new COVID-19 deaths

There were five COVID-19 related deaths reported to the Leavenworth County Health Department over six days according to LCHD statistics released Monday.Statistics showed five deaths reported between Aug. 10 and Monday. Among those deaths were four men and a woman. The woman and one of the men ...

Tonganoxie City Council approves final plat for Hill’s Pet Nutrition plant

Tonganoxie City Council members approved the final plat for the Hill’s Pet Nutrition plant at Tonganoxie Business Park.The approval was the next step after the Tonganoxie Planning Commission approved the plan at its Aug. 5 meeting.Hill’s announced in June plans to build a $250 million pet ...

Leavenworth County experiencing 107 new COVID-19 cases

Leavenworth County had 107 new positive community cases in the past week as rates climbed to the county’s highest since this past December.Of those cases, 93 involve unvaccinated people and 14 vaccinated, according to Leavenworth County Health Department numbers released Monday.LCHD was ...

Leavenworth County Health Department monitoring 5 active COVID-19 cases

Leavenworth County Health Department is monitoring five active COVID-19 cases as of Monday’s weekly report.None of those cases is in Tonganoxie, while one is in Fairmount, Reno, Sherman, Stranger and Tonganoxie townships and another two in Alexandria, Easton, High Prairie and Kickapoo ...