The PRCA Pretty Prairie Rodeo is ready to roll. According to the group’s organizers, this year will bring top cowboys and cowgirls to Pretty Prairie to compete for prize money. Last year’s rodeo paid off more than $80,000 in prize money. “We’ll have something for everyone,” said Julie Graber, executive secretary of the booster club that puts on the rodeo. The show starts at 8 p.m. this Wednesday through Saturday, July 21-24.
Source: Hutch News.

Access public transportation in Hays has seen its ridership cut in half since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The service usually provides 65,000 to 70,000 rides per year in Ellis County. It typically serves about 1,000 clients per year. The service closed for about a month in April 2020 as a result of the statewide shutdown. It has been operating since with COVID restrictions, which means riders must wear masks and only two riders can be on the bus at the same time to allow for social distancing.
Source: Hays Post.

Junction City Mayor Jeff Underhill and City Manager Allen Dinkel Monday to outline an idea that would establish a City transient guest tax and leave the County with a bed tax only for Grandview Plaza and Milford. Under this plan the convention and visitor’s bureau would also come under Chamber of Commerce auspices once again, instead of being a separate organization. “What we talked about was them dissolving their transient guest tax and us being able to implement our own in the city that we would be able to utilize and we would operate the CVB at that point…”
Source: JC Post.

For officials in Eskridge, the eye-popping prices from February’s Winter Storm Uri never cease to amaze, even though it almost six months since the bitter cold spell ripped through the Great Plains. It is one of 50-plus cities with municipal gas agencies, leaving them more at the whims of the wildly fluctuating markets than most. Eskridge’s total bill from the Kansas Municipal Gas Agency was $1.1 million — 10 times more than its entire gas costs for all of 2020. Relief came in the nick of time, however, as Kansas lawmakers approved a loan program for cities staring down those eye-popping bills, allowing them to pay off their sky-high costs without burdening residents with dramatic rate increases — or having to disband their city all together.
Source: CJonline.com