With the voter registration deadline for the August primary passing Tuesday, it’s now time for registered voters to cast their ballots.Primaries normally don’t have as high of voter turnout as general elections, but, at least in Leavenworth County, there could be some strong ...
Several signs supporting the Value Them Both amendment were vandalized or stolen this past week.Tonganoxie Police Chief Greg Lawson said Tuesday that between 5 and 10 signs were either stolen or vandalized. Most were thought to be damaged or stolen Thursday, with two more being damaged or ...
Anyone who isn’t registered to vote but wants to cast a ballot in the August primary must do so soon.The voter registration deadline is Tuesday at the Leavenworth County Courthouse, 300 Walnut St., Suite 106.Advance voting by mail and in person at the courthouse begins the next day on ...
Kansas Democrats and activists who want to protect the right to abortion recently ramped up their efforts to defeat a constitutional amendment in August in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion rights.Former Democratic lawmaker Jennifer Day from Overland ...
Tonganoxie City Council approved the purchase of three Tonganoxie Police Department vehicles for just more than $117,000 and outfitting of the vehicles for around $18,000 at Monday’s regular meeting.The council approved three 2022 Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles and associated “outfit” hardware ...
The Tonganoxie City Council approved a bid for $3.29 million water tower at the Tonganoxie Business Park.The city received four bids for the 750,000-gallon water tower, with the low bid coming from Gerard Tank and Steel at $2.616 million. However, as Brian Kingsley with BG Consultants ...
Democrats, a civil rights group and a national elections watchdog filed two lawsuits Monday against Kansas officials over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district that she carries by wide margins in ...
Active cases have dropped steadily in the past two weeks, but there also have been 12 more COVID-19 related deaths during that time, according to Leavenworth County Health Department statistics.For instance, Leavenworth went from 364 active cases Jan. 31 to 117 on Monday. Tonganoxie went from ...
The year 2021 was very active in bringing change to Leavenworth County government. These changes that will benefit the citizens included: Adoption of a more than $50 million budget that included a reduction in the mil levy, implementation of spending priorities for the $19 million of CARES ACT ...
Council Member Loralee Stevens was sworn in for another term during Monday’s Tonganoxie City Council meeting.Stevens and fellow Council Members Rocky Himpel and Chris Donnelly won re-election in 2021. Himpel was sworn in during the Dec. 20 council meeting, as he would not be in attendance for ...
