Lee's Summit Town Hall

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of October 12, 2020. PSAT scores and student journalism earns a string of awards for students in the LSR7 School district. Downtown Lee's Summit hosts a virtual costume contest; Arts& Culture Week continues and COVID-19 forces a temporary closure.

Hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury pass along some local news & notes before taking a look at what's on the ballot for November and then offering some final bits to help ease some confusion for those voting absentee or by mail in this election.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of October 5, 2020. The Lee's Summit R-7 School District moves to a hybrid plan, UCM offering adult job training courses, Lee's Summit CARES offers support for parents and families & the Lee's Summit Arts Council and Lee's Summit Tourism launch the inaugural LS Arts + Culture week celebration this Friday.

Glenda Masters drops by the studio to preview a new community event, Arts + Culture Week, set to run October 9-18. Yeah, we'll tease her a bit for having a week-long event run for 9 days. But Glenda's got a plan an is on a mission to celebrate all things arts in Lee's Summit.

Nick and Jason take a look at the Lee's Summit R-7 School district's move from virtual to a hybrid learning model and the City puts out an RFQ to begin its search for a development partner on the Green Street plan.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of September 28, 2020. This week's headlines include news and events from the City of Lee's Summit, Lee's Summit R-7 School District, Velocity Lee's Summit, Lee's Summit Chamber, Economic Development Council, Downtown Main Street, and Lee's Summit High School.

Lee's Summit's first Arts & Culture week is just a couple of weeks away, so Nick thought it would be a good idea to start spotlighting some of the people creating art in our community. Joining him for this week's conversation is Lee's Summit resident and creator behind beeuniquecreate, Hollie Stuhlman Couch.

Branch manager Seth Moses joins hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury to talk about Lee's Summit's new East Branch of the Mid-Continent Public Library system, the ongoing construction at the Colbern Road branch and what may be in store for the Lee's Summit branch. Oh, and Seth apparently likes spooky books. He has some recommendations for you.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of September 21, 2020 offers news and notes from Velocity Lee's Summit, Lee's Summit Chamber, Downtown Lee's Summit Main Street, Lee's Summit Economic Development Council, Lee's Summit R-7 Schools, Lee's Summit Fire Department, and Lee's Summit CARES.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Local family therapist Kerri Gray and ReDiscover's Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator Kirsti Millar join hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury for in important conversation on risk factors, warning signs and how to talk with our family, friends and neighbors about these hard, but necessary topics. If you, or a loved one need assistance, please use...

We've got 20 minutes of "good on ya" today. The biggest is reserved for the folk inside Lee's Summit City Hall. This week, as staff and City Council members work to provide some assistance to local nonprofits hurting from the current pandemic, we were given a perfect example of process and how staff and Council can work together to do good for the community.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of September 14, 2020. Lee's Summit R-7 School District counselors and therapists send an open letter to students, UCM-Lee's Summit announces new programs, Lee's Summit CARES moves its parenting classes to a virtual format and more.

As punishment for once again crashing host Nick Parker's Friday episode of the podcast, Jason Norbury is relegated to virtual participation and denied the opportunity to eat wings. Local resident Chris Turney dropped by the studio for a conversation on next Thursday's Wings 4 Water charitable event. You can order your  box of wings here .

Hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury check in on the Lee's Summit City Council as it hears a presentation on the recently-concluded strategic planning process and begin talking about talking about diversity and inclusion.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of August 31, 2020. This week's headlines come from the Lee's Summit R-7 School District, Lee's Summit CARES, City of Lee's Summit and the community at large.

Lee's Summit R-7 Board of Education President Ryan Murdock joins hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury to discuss this week's vote on the plan to reopen schools. The conversation looks at the board's process, as well as some insight into its future decisions through the pandemic.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of August 24, 2020. Hosts Nick Parker and Liesl Hays offer up some news and notes from the Lee's Summit R-7 School District, the City of Lee's Summit and the Truman Heartland Foundation, among others.

Have you checked your engine light? No, not the one in your car. Local therapist Kerri Gray drops back by the show to talk with Nick and Jason about our current collective mental state. We're all under an exorbitant amount of emotional stress right now, she says. But, she also has tips for how we can cope. 

Hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury sift through a few news and notes from inside City Hall as much of the community awaits the final reopening decision from the Lee's Summit R-7 School District. And then ponder what news developments they're looking forward to as we approach fall and the back stretch of 2020.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of August 17, 2020.

Hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury review some of the top news from the community, including the City's renewal of some Public Service Agreements and a little conversation as we all wait to see what back-to-school will look like for the Lee's Summit R-7 school District.

Your Monday NewsLink for the week of August 10, 2020.

Hosts Nick Parker and Jason Norbury outline LSR7's updated roadmap to reopening the local schools and discuss its impact on the community.

Your Monday Newslink for the week of August 3, 2020 takes a look at the latest reopening recommendations for the LSR7 School District, Tuesday's primary, some help for parents as they prep for the new school year and a chance to hear from LSR7's new superintendent.

This week, Jason and Nick are doing their first interview with Dr. David Buck second. Why? Because COVID. After first joining the show after the Lee's Summit R-7 School District announced its initial plans for reopening, the new superintendent comes back for what was originally planned as his introductory interview and a chance for residents to learn more about him and his vision for the district.