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 ...
Tonganoxie City Council said yes Monday to an earlier start to Sunday liquor sales in the city.The council unanimously approved the change, which would mean sales could start at 9 a.m. instead of the current noon start. Recent changes in state law allows for cities to change operating times. ...
COVID-19 active community cases were down this week for the first time in the last few weeks in Leavenworth County, though the county had two more deaths.Leavenworth County Health Department statistics released Monday showed active cases up were at 252 this week.That’s down from 280 the ...
Tonganoxie will have a butterfly garden thanks to a local Boy Scout who plans to create the space at Tonganoxie Public Library as part of an Eagle Scout project.Boy Scout Troop 3057 member Christian Secrest spoke to the Tonganoxie City Council on Monday during the council’s regular ...
