On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Julia Williams sat down with Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association President, Jacob Luke and Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association President Elect, Dylan Van Gerben to discuss the neighborhood’s 29th annual Scare-it Halloween event Oct. 31 and additional happenings around Scarritt. 

Additional discussions include current projects the neighborhood association is working on as well as a formal introduction to Van Gerben, who will step into a new role as the President of Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association in January 2025. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Editorial Assistant Emily Wheeler sat down with Missouri State House of Representatives  District 19 Democratic Nominee, Wick Thomas to discuss their campaign efforts and goals for legislation. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, we will introduce a new series — community journalism. 

Julia Williams is joined in the studio with Northeast News Editorial Assistants RobyLane Kelley and Emily Wheeler to define and introduce community journalism — specifically the Northeast Community — its vitality and uniqueness from national-scale works.

Throughout these episodes, past and present Northeast News staff will come together to discuss our ever-changing field and gravity of community journalism. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, editorial assistant Emily Wheeler sits down with outgoing District 19 Representative, Ingrid Burnett. We discuss her plans post-office as well as her thoughts on the Northeast Transformation Plan and the new proposed state mental health facility. Rep. Burnett currently represents the Northeast area of Kansas City, as well as parts of the Westside, Riverside and Crossroads districts in the Missouri State House of Representatives. She was elected to her first two-year term in November 2016 and is currently a few months shy of closing out her fourth and final term in office.

This week on The Northeast Newscast, Editorial Assistant RobyLane Kelley sat down with Gene T. Chavez — Kansas City Museum’s historian in residence — to discuss Hispanic and Latino representation within the museum and Greater Kansas City. As we kick-off Hispanic Heritage Month, we take a look at how Hispanic and Latino culture has shaped not only our area but our history. 

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On this week’s Northeast Newscast, we sat down with Northeast Locals Bryce Abbott and Damien Wilson CEO and COO of 3 Cross Sacrifice Championship Wrestling. 

Founded by Abbott a little over a year ago, this non-profit wrestling organization competes at various locations around the Kansas City Metro. Recently, team members traveled to Springfield, Illinois to face-off and raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

Tune in to this week’s Northeast Newscast to learn more on 3 cross Sacrifice Championship Wrestling and how they give back to this community. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Kansas City actor and playwright Terrace Wyatt Jr., joined us in the studio to discuss all things KC Fringe Festival. 

This year, Fringe celebrates its 20th season of highlighting arts, culture and creativity around the Kansas City Metro. From visual arts to theatre, performance and film — Fringe remains dedicated to creating a diverse, welcoming atmosphere for its vast range of creators. 

Terrace Wyatt Jr gives a behind the scenes look into his play “Black Man Missouri” — including the meaning behind its created acts, and his journey as a Fringe Playwright and Director. 

For additional information on the festival — including ticket purchase locations — visit its website: https://kcfringe.org/. 

To learn more about this playwright and “Black Man Missouri,” visit: https://kcfringe.org/2024-shows/terrace-wyatt-jr-s-black-man-missouri/., or follow @terr.studios on social media. 

Join us on this week’s Northeast Newscast as we sit down with Juliana Chi and Art as Mentorships’ Erika Noguera — a local, non-profit, music-driven organization. With its founding band “Making Movies” at the forefront, this program works to bring musical and artistic education to youth within the Northeast community. 

Chi is the event operations manager and community partners liaison for celebrate AMERI’KANA Music and Arts Festival, which is one of the many free events hosted by this program.  

This July 27 festival will partner with Northeast Arts KC, who will host its Chalk Walk in addition to Art as Mentorship’s musical guests.  

Celebrate AMERIK’ANA will be held from 1 to 8 p.m., July 27 at Concourse Park (200 Benton Blvd). 

For additional information on Art as Mentorship, or celebrate AMERIK’ANA Fest, tune into this week’s newscast. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, we bring the first component to a new feature: Between the Avenue. Combining written, audio and photographic elements, we delve into issues present beyond Independence Avenue — within the Northeast community. 

Alongside Fourth District-at-Large Councilman, Crispin Rae, we address the illegal dumping epidemic within our neighborhoods. Illegal dumping includes the unauthorized discarding of materials and items on vacant public lots and properties. However, Kansas City is actively working to combat this crisis through its new docket, which hones in on stricter enforcement and penalization. 

For more information on this docket, and additional developed regulations surrounding illegal dumping, tune in to this week’s Northeast Newscast. 

To see further aspects of this “Between the Avenue” feature, look out for the July 17 edition of the Northeast News. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, we revisit our business spotlight podcast series with Kelsey Goff — community outreach and marketing coordinator for Essig Family McDonalds. 

 Essig — a family company — owns Northeast’s own McDonalds location at Independence and Hardesty. Community engagement, a pivotal concept for Essig, led the company to assist Whatsoever Community Center at 12th and Ewing, following its boxing-equipment robbery.  

Tune into this week’s newscast for all things McDonalds on Independence and Hardesty.