37th Annual Shop With A Cop

37th Annual Shop With A Cop

staff2 December 21, 2024

The Lee’s Summit Police Officer’s Association 37th Annual Shop With a Cop event was held last week. Lee’s Summit Police Officers took 15 children from five different Lee’s Summit Elementary Schools shopping at Target. While at Target, students and officers shopped for…

What I REID Into It

staff2 December 20, 2024

By Fred [email protected] It’s a Clash of the Champions at high noon on a Saturday as the Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans. The Chiefs, AFC West Division Champions, sit at 13-1 on the season while the Texans, the AFC South…

Police Blotter December 9 to December 16, 2024

staff2 December 20, 2024

December 21, 2024 The following list contains the information of actual police reports or investigations initiated by a police officer. Additional call’s for police service or assistance may have been dispatched, but determined to be unfounded, or not requiring a police report by…

MSHP Says Have A Safe Christmas Season

staff2 December 20, 2024

The Missouri State Highway Patrol wishes everyone a merry and safe Christmas. One way for it to be merry is for everyone to arrive at their holiday celebrations safely. Wear your seat belt, obey all traffic laws, pay attention, and please, don’t…

KC Mavericks Complete Home Series With Savannah

staff2 December 20, 2024

By Fred [email protected] A sold out crowd of 5,800 entered Cable Dahmer Arena on Saturday, Dec. 14 to see the final game of a three-game series between the Kansas City Mavericks and the Savannah Ghost Pirates. Not only were Mavericks fans in…

Lee’s Summit R-7 Board Of Education Places No Tax Rate Increase Bond Issue On April 8 Ballot: Approves A Special Resolution To Address Proposed Consolidation Of Lee’s Summit And Westview Elementaries

staff2 December 20, 2024

The Lee’s Summit R-7 Board of Education approved placement of a no tax rate increase bond issue for the April 8, 2025 ballot at its Dec. 19 regular monthly meeting. Board members approved ballot language to fund major building improvements and maintenance…

Marilyn (Siler) McQueen

staff2 December 19, 2024

Marilyn (Siler) McQueen, a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at the age of 79 in Blue Springs, Missouri, after complications following a broken hip. She was born in Wichita, Kansas, on September 4, 1945, to…

Door Systems High School Sports Report

staff2 December 19, 2024

By Fred [email protected] LS West Titans boys wrestling finished first in a two day, 15 team tourney held at LS North over December 13-14. The LSHS Tigers girls basketball team hosted rival LS West on Monday, Dec. 16. The Tigers lost 59-50.…

State Historical Society Of Missouri Awards Fellowships For 2025

staff2 December 19, 2024

The State Historical Society of Missouri is awarding a Center for Missouri Studies fellowship to a pair of scholars from the Saint Louis University (SLU) School of Education in 2025. Amy Shelton, an adjunct professor and senior researcher at the SLU Policy…

Boot Block Returns: These Boots Are Made For Helpin’!

staff2 December 18, 2024

The familiar Lee’s Summit Firefighter boots will be walking the streets of Downtown Lee’s Summit this week. Members of the Lee’s Summit Fire Department and the Lee’s Summit Firefighters Association IAFF #2195 will be a fixture at the to the four corners…