Lee’s Summit Chamber Announces Top Businesses for 2013

Metropolitan Community College has named Kirk A. Nooks as the new president of the college’s Longview campus in Lee’s Summit.

Jesse Pringle and Shawn Wright want movie and television buffs in Lee’s Summit to know they’re serious about bringing Hollywood-type productions to the area.

Timber Hills homeowners have problems with their sewers they want Lee’s Summit to solve.

Patrick Graham had quite a senior year at Lee’s Summit North High School.

With the federal sequester grounding jets for flyovers and keeping military bands at homes, organizers of the “Salute Our Heroes KC” event have scrambled to make this year’s parade and concert a success.

Lee’s Summit might abandon a proposed Enhanced Enterprise Zone and use a combination of other tax programs to provide incentives to attract jobs.

A Lee’s Summit man remains in jail on a $75,000 cash-only bond after pleading not guilty at his arraignment in Jackson County Circuit Court on child abuse charges

Lindsey Martin-Bowen, a poet, fiction writer and English teacher at both the University of Missouri Kansas City and Metropolitan Community College-Longview, generally has a full slate on a day-to-day basis. Just this past February Chatter House Press of Indianapolis, Ind., released Martin-Bowen’s second full-length poetry collection, “Inside Virgil’s Garage.” In 2008, Woodley Press of Washburn University released Martin-Bowen’s first collection, “Standing on the Edge of the World.” Martin-Bowen, who has resided in Lee’s Summit since May of 2004, answered five quick questions from the Journal about the writing process, her latest work, how she finds time to teach as well as write and the arduous task of finding a publisher.

Confidentiality laws won’t allow Kristen Glenn or Lauren Russell to disclose any of the inside information they have gleamed as part-time employee’s inside the attendance office at Lee’s Summit High School.