Wednesday marks the beginning of this year’s fireworks season for Lee’s Summit residents. Fireworks are allowed between 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. July 2-3 and from 10 a.m. to midnight on Friday, July 4.
Lee’s Summit’s senior center, the Gamber Center, opens Monday to rave reviews
At nearly 19,000 square feet, the recently opened Gamber Center is quite a bit larger than Arnold Hall, its predecessor as Lee’s Summit’s premier senior citizen activity center.
On Tuesday, Mayor Rich DeCourcy announced that Greenwood Police Chief Gary Bonine is stepping down.
The R-7 School District needs to cut nearly $7 million in operating expenses over the next two years due to an unexpected lull in Jackson County assessment values.
The city of Lee’s Summit is working with the National Civic League once again to begin a new Strategic Planning process.
A Lee’s Summit man was among three people recently sentenced in a federal court for their roles in a mortgage fraud conspiracy.
The man in the middle of a controversy regarding the death of his former wife and their stillborn daughter is no longer on the Lee’s Summit police force.
For most of the year, the Evelyn Bliss Lewis Children’s Center in Lee’s Summit operates as a licensed preschool for children 3 to 5 years old.
The city is hosting two sanitary sewer open houses this week to help make homeowners in two project areas aware of the sanitary sewer improvements.
It’s not often that dangerous weapons make their way into the Lee’s Summit Municipal Court, but it has happened before, according to Pam DeVault, court administrator.

