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Holiday lights, live music and Santa to downtown Lee’s Summit

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) - Downtown Lee’s Summit will light up for the holidays Friday, Nov. 20, with music, treats, and a visit from Santa. Festivities begin at Green Street and include a tree-lighting program and free family activities. Here’s the schedule:. 5 p.m.: Doors open at...

Lee'S Summit, MO · 1d
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Students Take the Stage: District Band Auditions

Throughout the week of November 2, several Windsor band members will participate in district band auditions, which are being held at Festus High School. Students will have the opportunity to audition for both concert band and jazz band. These auditions allow students to demonstrate their musical abilities and compete for a spot among some of the best student musicians in the county.

Festus, MO · 2d
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ABC Affiliate News Veteran Announces Retirement After Nearly 40 Years

ABC affiliate KMBC 9 has announced the retirement of veteran reporter Johnny Rowlands. After decades of reporting for Kansas City viewers, Rowlands will leave the station, marking the end of an era. His work was praised in a statement given by the station’s president and general manager. ABC affiliate...

Kansas City, MO · 1d

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Kansas City Auto Museum leaving Olathe, seeking new home

The Kansas City Automotive Museum is closing its Olathe location after 12 years and searching for a new home.

Olathe, KS · 2d
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Crowd packs Blue Valley school board meeting to protest cuts to Chinese Immersion, arts and libraries

Only standing room was left in the Blue Valley Board of Education room Monday night — families, students, teachers and community members alike filled the room, spilling into the hall, to protest recent budget cuts. Blue Valley is cutting more than $16 million between this year and next to...

Overland Park, KS · 1d

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Horse-drawn Christmas parade to return to downtown Lawrence

LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - The Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade will return this December, bringing horse-drawn carriages and wagons for a holiday tradition spanning decades. The parade, set to begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, features historically accurate replicas of vehicles from the late 1800s and early 1900s, with...

Lawrence, KS · 1d

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Lyda Conley saved a Kansas City, Kansas, cemetery. A new book traces the fight across generations

Lyda Conley devoted her entire life to protecting the land now known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground in Kansas City, Kansas, and the retelling of her story often starts when she and her sisters, Helena and Ida, built a 6-by-8-foot shack to take up residence over their parents’ graves.

Kansas City, KS · 1d

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The Savoy In Downtown Kansas City Brings New Life To A Historic Dining Room

Some dining rooms are older than the cars parked outside them by about a century. In downtown Kansas City, one of them still opens its doors for breakfast and dinner, with stained glass, murals, and a booth where a president liked to sit. The building dates back to 1903, and...

Kansas City, MO · 1d

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Kansas had a postpunk revolution; learn about it at this Lawrence event

The description of a new book on the postpunk revolution in Kansas taunts the reader: “Flyover Country? Fly over THIS.”. “No Choice But Action: The Kansas Postpunk Revolution” by Francis X. Connor and Darren DeFrain focuses on the postpunk movement that swept Kansas from 1978 to 1994. “The...

Lawrence, KS · 2d

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Veterans Day visitors learn of Truman's military service at his library, museum

Visitors to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday in Independence learned more about the former president's life of military service.

Independence, MO · 1d

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Some of music’s biggest names played Kansas City’s high school gyms, converted ballrooms and hippie hangouts

Before The Who were rock legends, they were getting kicked off the stage at a suburban Kansas City high school. It was November 1967, and the British rockers were the opening act for The Buckinghams at the brand-new Shawnee Mission South High School. But when the band launched into its equipment-smashing finale during “My Generation,” the principal apparently had seen enough. The show was over.

Kansas City, MO · 2d

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Lawrence Public Library to open branch in west Lawrence

The Lawrence Public Library will open a new west Lawrence location next summer, marking its first expansion out of downtown. The new 6,400-square-foot storefront will be located at 3514 Clinton Parkway in the Parkway Plaza Shopping Center, in the space formerly occupied by Beauty Brands. “Having a second location in...

Lawrence, KS · 4d

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New Documentary Highlights Program that Brings Children and Incarcerated Parents Together to Play Free - Beyond Prison Walls

TOPEKA, Kan. (KPR) — One in 28 American children has a parent in jail. What if those kids had the opportunity to play and interact with their incarcerated parents beyond the prison walls?. That's exactly what's happening in Kansas thanks to a program operated by the Kansas Children's Discovery...

Topeka, KS · 3d

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Overland Park painter’s new project puts small businesses in focus

Every small business, no matter what kind, has a story. The businesses themselves may come and go, but their impact on their community remains. That’s how painter Martin Pyle sees it — especially when it comes to Overland Park, where he lives. Pyle’s newest project, “At Work: Stories...

Overland Park, KS · 3d

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Baby news: Patrick and Brittany Mahomes announce baby number 4!

Kansas City, MO · 2d

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New Documentary Highlights Program that Brings Children and Incarcerated Parents Together to Play Free - Beyond Prison Walls

TOPEKA, Kan. (KPR) — One in 28 American children has a parent in jail. What if those kids had the opportunity to play and interact with their incarcerated parents beyond the prison walls?. That's exactly what's happening in Kansas thanks to a program operated by the Kansas Children's Discovery...

Topeka, KS · 3d

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Kansas City Auto Museum leaving Olathe, seeking new home

OLATHE, Kan. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Automotive Museum plans to close its Olathe location and move to a larger space. KCAM opened in Olathe in 2014 and has been a gathering place for car enthusiasts, collectors and families for 12 years. The museum, known as KCAM, announced Tuesday it...

Olathe, KS · 3d

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7 Things Missourians Remember About the Plaza Lights in Kansas City

Thanksgiving night, Nov. 26, is when the Plaza lights are set to come on over Kansas City this year. You’ve probably seen them glow, but the lights once went dark for years during World War II. Here’s what Missourians remember about the Plaza lights in Kansas City, and how...

Kansas City, MO · 6d

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KU professor, Wichita native helps shape Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ reboot

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) — A University of Kansas professor and Wichita native played a key behind-the-scenes role in shaping Netflix’s hit adaptation of “Little House on the Prairie.”. Robert Warrior, the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at KU and a citizen of the Osage...

Wichita, KS · 7d