The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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Thursday, November 5, 2020
The Scout statue in Penn Valley Park has kept watch over downtown Kansas City for almost a century. Since its dedication in 1922, it has become a symb...
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Friday, October 30, 2020
Is it safe for kids to go trick-or-treating this year? And if they come to your home, is it safe to give them candy?
“What’s your KCQ?,” a part...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The Little Store wasn’t the place’s actual name. It was the Buena Vista Market, though nobody called it that, operated by Everett Hamilton, who would...
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Monday, October 12, 2020
It’s been said many times, but this is an election like no other. Voters not only have questions about who they will support at the polls, but they al...
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Friday, October 9, 2020
Ever heard of Pierce Avenue? Here’s a hint: It’s off Rockhill Road just south of Cleaver Boulevard — also labeled Pierce Street. But don’t worry. You’...
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
Imagine for a moment that you’re enjoying a pleasant day at the Kansas City Zoo. You’ve seen lions, tigers and even aswimming polar bear. You notice a...
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Friday, September 25, 2020
It’s a story that has become a part of Kansas City baseball lore: a local team enlisting famed frontier lawman Wild Bill Hickok to umpire a game again...
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Friday, September 18, 2020
You’ve asked “What’s your KCQ?” a lot of questions over the years, and The Star and the Kansas City Public Library have been hard at work answering th...
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Friday, September 11, 2020
Learn more about the mechanical rabbit deployed by the Kansas City Athletics in the 1960s....
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Thursday, September 3, 2020
But 150 years ago, Greenwood was a hopping town, with depots and stockyards for two railroads, plus dairies, cider mills and woolen mills. It also was...