The Kansas Supreme Court reappointed chief judges in 29 judicial districts for two-year terms that begin Jan. 1 and end Dec. 31, 2025. Each of Kansas’ 31 judicial districts has a chief judge who, in addition to their judicial responsibilities, has general control over case assignments ...
Plans for more than 140 homes in a proposed neighborhood along State Avenue are working their way through Tonganoxie City Hall, and developers will be seeking a property tax break to help fund the project. Tonganoxie city council members have agreed to hold a public hearing on July 17 to ...
Tonganoxie City Council and Tonganoxie USD 464 had meetings Monday night. School board meetings normally are the second Monday of the month, but moved up a week with USD 464 on spring break next week. For more from those meetings, see next week’s edition of The Mirror or visit the city ...
TOPEKA — Top Republican legislators in Kansas are focusing on helping conservative parents remove their children from public schools over what’s taught about gender and sexuality rather than pursuing a version of what critics call Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. A proposal to allow ...
Though voters will have to wait nearly two more years to fill the two vacant seats on the newly expanded five-seat Douglas County Commission, Leavenworth County has completed the same process in recent years and could provide some clues about what’s to come here. Douglas County voters ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday and will be observed nationally. The federal holiday was passed in 1983 and the first nationwide observance took place in 1986. There’s no school Monday for Tonganoxie public schools. Many government offices also will be closed Monday, along with banks ...
TOPEKA — Kansas House Democratic leader Tom Sawyer, first elected to the Legislature in 1986, said Tuesday he didn’t intend to seek the leadership job entering the 2023 session. The announcement that Sawyer would step aside but remain in the House followed decisions by House Speaker Ron ...
Tonganoxie school board members approved personnel recommendations at their Oct. 10 meeting. Brian Golubski was approved for a transportation position. Resignations also were accepted for Stacy Bougher, Tonganoxie Elementary School paraprofessional; Maria Bingham, Tonganoxie Middle School ...
The general election is roughly a month away, but one race that was thought to be uncontested now has a challenger. Anyone driving through Tonganoxie and the surrounding area will notice political signs for a write-in campaign. Todd Lux, a longtime Tonganoxie business owner, started a ...
Tom Cole, Leavenworth County economic development director, spoke to Tonganoxie Business Association members about local economic development Friday during TBA's weekly meeting at Village Venue, Fourth and Delaware streets. Cole was hired as the county’s first economic development ...
