The city currently leaves trash hauling and other solid waste removal services to its residents in an open market system, so residents contract with haulers individually or through an HOA. However, Overland Park is the latest Johnson County city to explore switching to a more organized trash pickup system by possibly contracting out with one or more haulers in an effort to address cost concerns for some residents.
Read more: Johnson County Post

Eleven months after Brookwood Elementary School fourth grader Duke Ommert was killed while riding his e-scooter — prompting heartfelt pleas from parents for safer streets — the Leawood City Council is preparing to discuss a recommendation not to install sidewalks on Brookwood’s nearest residential streets.
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Having hundreds of still-thriving ash trees is practically unheard of in a city that’s spent millions of dollars over the past several years removing ash trees from neighborhood streets since the arrival of the emerald ash borer.
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People have been coming in droves for a chance to motor down Kansas’ brief portion of Route 66 — all 13.2 miles of it – and to experience Kansas places it’s made famous. Highlights include Luigi’s in Galena and munching on sandwiches at Nelson’s Riverton Store in Riverton. Some want to travel in the same tracks as that romance-loving-Robin Hoodesque-killing-machine-duo Bonnie and Clyde; or photograph themselves with the chrome-and-steel versions of the characters Tow Mater and Lightning McQueen from the animated movie “Cars.”
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Wichita Public Works Director Gary Janzen expanded on the earlier confirmation that the loss of water pressure and the ensuing boil advisory originated with a power outage at the city’s current water treatment plant. Janzen said the more-than-80-year-old plant was being powered with backup generators due to Tuesday night’s storms.
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One day, a man from Lost Springs sat down next to him at the Sit Down in Marion. The two struck up a conversation, and Almaguer soon discovered the man was his neighbor’s uncle at Marion County Lake.
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Peabody could turn to a private ambulance company while a proposed county ambulance station remains in limbo.
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