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Check out this adorable boat racing video from 1930s Wichita

A rare opportunity to observe the excitement and life of Wichita in the mid-1930s made the rounds on local social media this week. With a slight blueish tint, images of men in life preservers racing atop the Little Arkansas River in speedboats play over lively trumpet-infused jazz. Men and women in hats and the dress of the mid-1930s gather on the banks, perching on lawn chairs as they watch the speedboat race excitement. Jeff Roth, who edited the video, shared it on a private Facebook page called “Wichita history from my perspective.”
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

2021-09-03T07:08:14-05:00September 3, 2021|News|
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Old Abilene Town bringing history to life with ‘Chisholm Trail Days’ starting Friday

Old Abilene Town is honoring its history with “Chisholm Trail Days” Friday and Saturday. The two-day festival will include gunfighters, can-can dancers, and a historic reenactment of the shooting of Wild Bill Hickok. Development Coordinator Michael Hook said the festival takes a look at what it was like long before Abilene was known as the hometown of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “We want to go back to the time before Eisenhower and really get into what we really started as,” Hook said. “I think a lot of the chronology of this town has a lot to thank for the cowboys for that. If cowboys hadn’t come, we wouldn’t be the town we are today.”
Source: KSNT News

2021-09-03T07:06:57-05:00September 3, 2021|News|
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Bringing broadband to the country

By partnering with the Kansas Department of Transportation and a couple of soil health organizations, the Kansas Department of Agriculture can help farmers succeed. Many locations throughout the state are broadband dead zones. For farmers and truckers to utilize new technology, they need internet connectivity, but bringing that technology to rural areas with low population centers is not economically feasible for many companies. That is where KDA and KDOT come in. The two organizations got together with two soil health organizations to make an incentive plan to bring broadband to central Kansas.
Source: Hutch News

2021-09-03T06:45:57-05:00September 3, 2021|News|
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Governor updates drought emergency, warnings and watches for Kansas counties

Gov. Laura Kelly approved the updated Drought Declarations for Kansas counties with executive order 21-26. The declaration includes 87 out of 105 counties either in a warning or watch status. The drought declaration placed 14 counties into a warning status and 73 into a watch status. The action was recommended by Connie Owen, director of the Kansas Water Office and Chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team.
Source: KSN-TV

2021-09-03T06:39:51-05:00September 3, 2021|News|
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Labette County changes vacation rules to retain workers

Labette County commissioners on Tuesday agreed to accommodate hobbled county departments by paying employees for some unused vacation and allowing them to carry over any remaining after that. The accommodation is for this year only, commissioners said. The current policy is that county employees can carry 72 hours of unused vacation into the next year. The problem this year is that employees are leaving county jobs for other work and county departments are struggling to get enough applicants to fill vacancies, in part because of the lower wage offered for county work.
Source: Parsons Sun

2021-09-03T06:41:43-05:00September 2, 2021|News|
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Rail project near Haysville among 10 receiving funds

Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz announced 10 projects, totaling more than $5.2 million, were awarded as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Short Line Rail Improvement Fund Program. The announcement took place Monday at the Gavilon grain elevator in southwest Wichita, one of the recipients of program funding.
Source: Times-Sentinel Newspapers » Feed

2021-09-02T16:37:50-05:00September 2, 2021|News|
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Erie saved its grocery story by buying it and running it themselves

Erie city clerk, began the process by noting the building currently housing Erie Market was “relatively new,” since it had been rebuilt by the previous owners following a flood. “There were not many options on selling it, because it was a newer store,” Lero said. “It would take more money to purchase it,” and buyers weren’t coming forward. The owners therefore approached the City of Erie, because they had heard of other cities successfully operating stores of this kind. The city was receptive, but didn’t want to move forward without doing their due diligence, especially because “running it as a mom-and-pop is a lot different from running it from a city standpoint.”
Source: The Iola Register

2021-09-03T06:43:59-05:00September 2, 2021|News|
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Destination Kansas: Playing and exploring in the high plains

The high plains of Kansas have a lot to offer tourists. This region makes up the western third of the state. In the town of Liberal, follow the yellow brick road to meet Dorothy. While “The Wizard of Oz” never specified where Dorothy Gale started her trip to Oz, Liberal claims it. Visit Dorothy’s House and the Land of Oz, 567 E. Cedar Street, and skip down the yellow brick road. A few blocks from Dorothy’s house, take flight at the Mid-America Air Museum, 2000 W. 2nd Street, Liberal. More than a third of all B-24 command pilots in World War II were trained at the former Liberal Army Airfield. You’ll find more than 100 aircraft. The oldest is from 1932.
Source: KSN-TV

2021-09-02T06:57:16-05:00September 1, 2021|News|
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