The Tonganoxie City Council approved a landscape design agreement with GBA Architects for Tonganoxie Business Park.The agreement, approved by a 4-0 vote, with Curtis Oroke absent, will allow for several key factors, according to city staff, that will enhance the landscape design of the business ...
Lisa Patterson officially joined the Tonganoxie City Council on Monday.She also might have a future government official in the family.Tonganoxie Assistant City Manager Dan Porter swore Patterson in at the beginning of Monday’s regular council meeting.Walking up with Patterson for the ...
Leavenworth County officials have posted a proposed 5-district commission map.Residents can visit the Leavenworth County website to see a proposed 5-district map for future county commissions.Voters approved by roughly a 2-to-1 margin increasing the number county commissioners from the current ...
Lisa Patterson is the latest appointment to the Tonganoxie City Council.Members appointed the Tonganoxie, 5-0, at Monday’s regular council meeting.The council chose Patterson, a senior communications manager with H&R Block, to the post. She will be sworn in at the Dec. 3 meeting. ...
More officials are publicly denouncing comments that a Leavenworth County commissioner made about being part of a master race.Commissioner Louis Klemp made the remarks during Tuesday’s regular commission meeting to Triveece Penelton, a black woman representing a firm conducting a study on the ...
The 42nd House District race pits incumbent Republican Jim Karleskint, of Tonganoxie, against Democrat Thea Perry, of rural Tonganoxie. The 42nd District includes Eudora and western Leavenworth County.Karleskint, 71, is seeking his second term in the 42nd District seat. Running as a moderate in ...
The city will be acquiring more land near its parks and swimming pool.The council approved, 4-0, a donation from Nancy Younger for property at 103 and 105 Pleasant St.Younger has owned the property since 1990. Past uses of the property were both a nursing home and home for individuals with ...
Plans for the rest of the land at the former Tonganoxie Elementary School campus were discussed in more detail at Monday’s City Council meeting.The Tonganoxie City Council took steps forward at the last meeting with regards to the new library’s future on the south end of the former TES ...
With Mayor Jason Ward and council member Kara Reed both absent from Monday’s meeting, the council had to appoint one of its members to lead the meeting.Reed served as mayor pro tem, which means she assumed mayoral duties in the event of the mayor’s absence. With Reed also absent, the ...