To The Editor

November 2, 2024 Dear Editor: As a mom, I have many concerns about the parental rights that could be lost if Amendment 3 were to pass. The Amendment states in Section 36.3 “The right to reproductive freedom shall not be denied, interfered…

Rip Van Winkle Story Revised

October 26, 2024 By Dan W. Hall, CAE (Author’s note: “Rip Van Winkle” is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, According to the story It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious…

Dixie L. (Perne) Mothersbaugh

Dixie L. (Perne) Mothersbaugh, 86, of Lee’s Summit MO passed away on October 18, 2024. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at Fellowship Church-Greenwood, 1601 W Main Street, Greenwood, MO. The visitation will be at 10:00 a.m.…

America Is Truly Special

September 14, 2024 By Dan W. Hall On one of my visits to Prague, Czechoslovakia, I learned that General Patton’s forces had reached Prague prior to the Russians. Also, the Nazi Germans, even knowing they had been defeated by Patton, just prior…

We Are Not That Fragile

By Ron Freeman Recently LSR7 School Board member Bill Haley supported the district by sponsoring a table at Lee’s Summit Education Foundation event. The theme of his table was “Redneck Lives Matter.”   To give definition to the signage there is a sentence…