There’s some late-breaking confusion about the Starlite Drive-In’s plans to open this weekend.
Early on Thursday, the drive-in theater at 3900 S. Hydraulic said on social media and on its recorded information line that that it had been cleared by county and city officials to open the drive-in Friday through Sunday of this weekend and that it planned to keep the concession stand closed, not pass out handsets and ask customers to buy their tickets online. It announced ticket prices and the four movies it would show on its two screens.
But late on Thursday, county spokesman Van Williams said that the Starlite is “not considered an essential business” under the Sedgwick County’s stay-at-home order, which took effect on Wednesday. He said county officials were in the process of contacting the drive-in but that it would not be permitted to open this weekend.
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