Looking Backward

Ethel E. Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Jones of Platte City, was promoted to yeoman first class on...

Jim Dunn, faculty sponsor and coach, presented a medal to Anne Swaney, daughter of Georgianne and Jack Swaney, Platte City....

More details on the planned Price Chopper development in Platte City were announced at a meeting of the Platte City...

Miss Grace Ann McLain and Clifford Northern were united in marriage by the Rev. Lester Weeks at the First Christian...

A preliminary budget calling for $7.9 million in general fund expenditures has been presented by Bob Griffith, county auditor and...

The Landmark exclusively can report a motion to terminate the employment of Keith Moody, longtime city administrator, was approved by...

The Platte County Auditor’s Office has released its recommended budget for 2008. A proposed new budget will still need to...

Noble Aring was a Landmark visitor this week and tells us he has received 50-year pins this year from the...

Three teachers at the Northland Career Center in Platte City received awards at the American Vocational Association conference in St....

The long range plan for KCI Airport proposes only one terminal. The airport unveiled an updated master plan during an...

Winter is officially two weeks away but if the past two weeks weather is any indication of what to expect...

A pilot was killed and his passenger injured when a small plane crashed on the edge of KCI Airport on...

Thousands of area residents braved icy temperatures to view a 20-minute fireworks show at Parkville’s Christmas on the River celebration,...

At noon Tuesday, Platte County judges Henry Miller and Charles Kutz removed and opened the metal box found embedded in...

Investigators this week are still trying to piece together evidence to determine what caused the crash of a Cessna 150...

Kansas City Sand & Gravel, L.L.C., is proposing a new “mining” operation in Platte County in the river bottom near...

Secretary of State Jim Kirkpatrick of Jefferson City and State Sen. Truman Wilson of St. Joseph were in Weston Monday...

Miss Tina Hall and Mr. Shaker Pepper were united in marriage in a double ring ceremony at the Park Hill...

Greg Hall, former Landmark columnist/writer whose weekly compilations of sports media sound bites--with some spicy editorial comments thrown in for...

Mr. and Mrs. John Hancock returned home Saturday from a two and a half week trip to New York and...