The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
On a hill off Eastern Avenue, just south of where 1-435 now intersects Raytown Road, once stood a building with a complicated past. The two-story, co...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Born 150 years ago in what was still officially the City of Kansas, Mattie Rhodes lived a quiet life that ended before she could accomplish anything t...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
In hindsight, Kansas City’s development as the largest city in western Missouri seemed inevitable. Its location at the confluence of two rivers made i...
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
A lumber baron with a dream and his equestrian daughter are at the heart of this week’s “What’s Your KCQ?,” a community reference partnership between...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
The story of Eddie Osadchey is key in responding to a question to “What’s Your KCQ?” from Richard Taegel. “What’s Your KCQ?” is an ongoing series in w...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
In this strange year, “What’s your KCQ?” readers had a lot of questions. And surely, headed into 2021 with the pandemic still raging and a vaccine on...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
For more than four decades, a Kansas City company helped make Christmases more merry and bright. Beginning as a home business in the 1940s, Harold Gal...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020
If Helen Ostenberg’s life is turned into a movie script — and her story line does read a bit like a Lifetime channel classic — the opening scene would...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
With the recently aired finale of “Fargo” season four — set in Kansas City — “What’s your KCQ?” readers had some fair and timely questions about the s...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The holiday spirit is in full swing in Kansas City and, to help celebrate, we’re responding to a reader who asked about the origins of the lights on t...