Greenwood Mom Chases Storms

Greenwood Mom Chases Storms

Staff May 12, 2018

By Leilani Haywood Tribune Reporter Beth Johnson, 35, a pharmacist and resident of Greenwood, caught the third tornado of the year in Kansas with golf-ball sized hail while chasing a storm on May 1, 2018. This was the first day of tornadoes…

Unity Village CEO Envisions Campus Collaborations

Staff May 12, 2018

By Krista Klaus Unity Village CEO Jim Blake shared a vision for a holistic health and fitness community with tiny homes and natural amenities on its sprawling campus near U.S. 50 and Colbern Road. Blake told Lee’s Summit Economic Development Council leaders…

Early Morning Crash Kills One Person And Injures Two Others

Staff April 21, 2018

By Sgt. Chris Depue Public Information Unit Supervisor, Lee’s Summit MO Police Department On Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at approximately 3:05 a.m. emergency crews were called to the area of SE Shenandoah and SE Kimbrough on the report of a single car…

Rainbow Girls Rock Party

Staff April 21, 2018

The Lee’s Summit Rainbow Girls had a great time participating in the Emerald Isle Parade with crowns and gowns riding in a truck with half a dozen walkers passing out business cards and candy. We were in the parade a few years…

Lee’s Summit R-7 Students Qualify For National FBLA Contest

Staff April 21, 2018

Students from all three Lee’s Summit R-7 high schools recently captured awards at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference with eight students qualifying for the FBLA national competition. The state conference was held in early April in Springfield…

Community Garden Takes Shape At Miller Park Center Thanks To LSHS Graduate’s Innovative Idea

Staff April 21, 2018

Paige Shoemaker uses her grant from William Jewell College to create Miller Park Central garden Thanks to a Lee’s Summit R-7 graduate, a grant from her college and an innovative idea, Miller Park Center has its own community garden featuring vegetables, fruit and…

Summit Christian Academy Senior Named All-American

Staff April 21, 2018

Summit Christian Academy (SCA) is pleased to announce that Senior Connor Healy has been awarded the National Speech and Debate Association’s (NSDA) prestigious Academic All-American Award. There are over 141,000 student members of the NSDA, and less than 500 are named to…

SCA 7th Graders Earn State Recognition From Duke University Talent Identification Program

Staff April 21, 2018

Summit Christian Academy (SCA) is pleased to announce that seventeen of their 7th grade students qualified for the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) this year. Academically talented 7th grade students can qualify by scoring at or above the 95th percentile on…

The Evidence of Faith’s Substance

Staff April 21, 2018

Subject: The Best Place to Go to Understand Syria? The Bible Isaiah 7:2 “It was told to King Ahaz, of the House of David, ‘Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.” The Syrian civil war has been raging nearly seven years now, with…

Capitol Report

Staff April 21, 2018

Members of House Leadership Call for the Resignation of Governor Greitens After the release of a report made by the House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight, and with new information that Attorney General Josh Hawley has evidence to support another felony charge…