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The six-day festival includes highly sought after workshops, a Readers Retreat taught by Luis Alberto Urrea, and a craft panel series, the latter of which is still open to the public, as well as the annual Book Ball, this year featuring Margaret Atwood as the featured speaker.

Changing bell times among options for schools facing bus driver shortage     LEE’S SUMMIT, Missouri (KCTV, KSMO) — Lee’s Summit school parents could find school start and end times changing come fall. It’s one of several options being discussed to address an expected shortage in school bus drivers. A school bus now sits along Tudor Road for all to see as they drive by. A large banner hung on it reads, “Now Hiring.” But so are a lot of other folks. District transportation staff ...

Welcome to 2021! Things seem … mostly the same so far, for better or worse.  It sucks that the pandemic has basically wiped out film festivals for a year and change, but one silver lining of that is 2021 festivals moving totally online (and becoming more accessible). The first big one to do so, Sundance, had its tickets go on sale last week, and they are available for purchase by anyone, even you! Id hurry, though; some of the more anticipated films like Nella Larsons "Passing" have already...