Lee's Summit Town Hall

On meetings among the electeds & Christmas wishes for the community

Nick and Jason review a recent joint meeting between the City Council and the LSR7 Board of Education, look at the agenda for an upcoming BOE meeting and offer up some of their holiday wishes for the Lee's Summit community.

In support of local families, filing for office and updates from City Hall

We've got a full episode for you this week. We're offering up some "good on ya's" for efforts to support a local charity; we review the slate of candidates filing for local office and go over some updates on happenings at City Hall.

Monday NewsLink: Holiday events, supporting local nonprofits & some schools news

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of December 6, 2021.

Santa‘s coming, the mayor is running again and paying tribute to good deeds

Nick and Jason are back from their Thanksgiving break and ready to celebrate Santa's return on Friday night, before covering a bit of news from around the city and taking some time to honor Hillcrest Transitional Housing's Cotton Sivils, who has retired after leading the organization for 18 years.

Monday NewsLink: Santa‘s coming; a spotlight on two local residents and high school students gear up for a hackathon

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of November 29, 2021. Today's headlines come from downtown Lee's Summit, Hillcrest Transitional Housing, the Kansas City Chiefs, UCM-Lee's Summit and more.

Monday NewsLink: News, notes and events from around Lee‘s Summit

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of November 22, 2021. This week's headlines come from Summit Christian Academy, Lee's Summit R-7 School District, Lee's Summit CARES, and Downtown Lee's Summit.

Santa‘s coming on Friday and we have our first sign of election activity

The Mayor's Tree Lighting event is back this year and the switch gets flipped in downtown on Friday night. In other news, Nick and Jason await this week's LSR7 Board of Education's discussion about masking and take a quick look ahead to next spring's local election. Filing for the board of education, city council and the mayoral race is less than one month away.

City Council tells Jackson County it‘s ready to ditch the masks

This week, the Lee's Summit City Council unanimously passed a resolution telling the Jackson County Legislature it would like them to end the county-wide mask mandate. Why now? And what does this resolution actually mean? Jason and Nick have questions for the members seated at the dais.

Monday NewsLink: Championships, honors and recognition for local high school teams

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of November 8, 2021. This week focuses on recognition for local sports teams from Lee's Summit, Lee's Summit North, Lee's Summit West, Blue Springs South, St. Michael the Archangel and Summit Christian Academy high schools.

Monday NewsLink: Public conversations, downtown parades & saying goodbye

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of November 1, 2021. This week's headlines come from the City of Lee's Summit, Downtown Lee's Summit Main Street, the University of Central Missouri and guest columnist, John Beaudoin.