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Free summer concerts begin June 7 at Zona Rosa
Summer–and outdoor music season–is drawing closer. Several venues throughout Platte County and the Northland will be offering live music outdoors. One of those venues is Zona Rosa, the open-air, mixed-use shopping center located at the northwest corner of Interstate 29 and Barry Road. Beginning in June, Zona Rosa...
Tonganoxie FFA Dice Run to zoom through county Saturday
A popular annual event that’s in its third year will help benefit Tonganoxie FFA students with future scholarships. The Tonganoxie FFA Alumni SXS Off Road Dice Run will be Saturday. The event starts and ends at Deer Ridge Estate, 21107 Donahoo Road. On-site registration starts at 8 a.m., with...
7-mile stretch of highway in Jefferson Co. will soon slow traffic
TOPEKA (KSNT) — Road crews will soon start on a 7 mile pavement improvement project in Jefferson County until July. Starting Monday, June 3, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) announced it will be working on a pavement improvement project on U.S. 92 (K-16) on the stretch of highway between Oskaloosa and McLouth, according to […]
City has 5-6 year plan to demolish buildings
CIVIC CENTER, LIONS CLUB BUILDING, FORMER PHARMACY ALL WILL COME DOWN. The Platte County Historical Society will soon have a different location for its record storage and digital archiving work. The move is connected to the city’s long range plan to demolish multiple city-owned buildings in the next five to...
Summer concerts set on courthouse lawn
Three summer concerts will be featured on the lawn of the Platte County Courthouse this summer. All three are part of the Platte City Friends of the Arts annual Summer Concert Series in Downtown Platte City on the courthouse square. Concerts are held the second Saturday during the months of...
The search is on; The 4th is back on Main; Don’t be fooled by tax talk
Co-worker Cindy continues to speak ill of the movie Dumb and Dumber and I for one will not stand for slander of a cinematic classic. You might be wondering how the search for a permanent city administrator for Platte City is going. Or maybe you weren’t. After all, there really shouldn’t be any reason to rush the search. Interim administrator DJ Gehrt has been busy doing things like saving the Hwy. 92 widening project that former administrator Marji Gehr and former mayor Tony Paolillo seemed anxious to pronounce dead. Gehrt no doubt has also been busy trying to unburn some bridges that were torched by eight months of Marji Mayhem, whose personality was not a good fit for public service.
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