The issue of Sunday liquor sales in Emporia will be on the ballot in August, thanks to a petition arguing against a move to legalize Sunday sales within the city.
The petition, which had the requisite 5 percent of signatures needed to force the vote, was turned into the Lyon County Clerk’s Office on Wednesday. The Emporia City Commission unanimously approved an ordinance to allow Sunday liquor sales during an April 11 meeting. Anyone opposed to the ordinance had a 60-day protest period — which ends Saturday — to present a petition containing signatures from 5 percent of the number of Emporians who voted in the 2016 general election to get the measure on the Aug. 7 primary ballot.
(Read more: Emporia Gazette)