What brought you to Lee’s summit? My wife, Kelly. She was working for the school district as a 6th grade teacher when we met… and of course I followed. We have lived here for more than 20 years. Several years ago, we started searching for an old house in a historic district of Lee’s Summit. …
Article Alex Martin | Photography Provided by the City of Lee’s Summit Start small and build from the ground up. When the nation’s economic heartbeat grows fainter each day, the solutions are not thousands of miles away but right here in the citizens who walk these streets. Although it feels like a single vote strains …
Article Tracy Sullivan | Photography Brian Turner In the days when honor and dignity of family were more important than anything, a shocking murder shook the town of Maryville, Mo. More than a century later, one local author, Linda Ellis Benedetti, has detailed the events that led to the murder, as well as its aftermath, …
Article Liz McGuire | Photography Courtesy of Missouri Town Step back in time and experience an old-fashioned Christmas as Jackson County Parks and Recreation presents A Christmas Celebration at Missouri Town 1855. Watch a blacksmith make trivets, see a tree hanging from the ceiling or experience the simplicity of children mak- ing 1860s era presents …
Article Kathy Smith | Photography Brian Turner The Lee’s Summit Historical Cemetery is the repository of close to 150 years of local history and rich family stories. One of the saddest yet most important stories is that of the Younger Family. The Henry Washington Younger family was a well educated and religious family who resided …
Article Katherine Bontrager | Photography Brian Turner According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), some 46.4 percent of Americans will struggle with a mental illness or substance use disorder at some time in their lives. That number is stag- gering—but so is the fact that many of those suffering will not get the …
Scenes from New Year’s past… New Year’s Day, 2007. The temperature is 40 degrees and the skies are sunny. There is a bit of ice on Lake Winnebago yet 20 people go water skiing. New Year’s Day, 2008. It is sunny, but the air temperature is 25 degrees. A strong wind is blowing, which brings …
More than 300 people attended the Lee’s Summit Chamber luncheon in late October to cheer on eight couples at the first Dancing with the Chamber Stars event. Mike Allen, Cornerstone Financial Group, and Julie Doane, Missouri Central Credit Union, were named the 2011 champions. Together this dancing duo raised the most money for the Lee’s Summit …
Fourth graders at Underwood Elementary recently created 140 Christmas cards to go to American and Canadian soldiers serving around the world. Through Operation EK Success and K&Company, businesses specializing in scrapbooking materials, donated supplies for the cards to the Underwood fourth- grade classes. In addition, General Alex Duckworth spoke to fourth graders about serving with …
Thanks to an idea generated by a Lee’s Summit occupational therapist and the efforts of local Boy Scouts, students with special needs at five schools now have the opportunity to practice daily living skills with new indoor garden tables. Occupational therapist Gary Groening thought that an indoor garden table would provide students enrolled in special …
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